Gunnison Valley News | 1919-07-11 | Page 3 | Forgot Promise to Client

FORGOT PROMISE TO CLIENT Eminent Lawyer Talked Altogether Too Freely Over His Whisky and Soda at the Club. Sir Thomas Lipton spoke in a Y. M. C. A. address in New York about honor among business men. "Too many business men," he said, "falK from honor thoughtlessly. They are like an eminent divorce lawyer whom I overheard one night prattling over his whisky and soda at the club. " 'Yes,' said the eminent lawyer, 'she's a very beautiful woman. Nervous, Nerv-ous, of course of course very nervous Just now. So I said to her gently, as soon as I'd sent my secretary out of the room : "Now, my dear lady, I know in these cases there are many little details which a woman of your position and refinement is most reluctant reluc-tant to divulge. But it is necessary, If our case is to succeed, that I be fully acquainted with all you have had to suffer. Of course you will understand that what you tell me will never go beyond the four walls of this room. I shall regard your confidence as absolutely ab-solutely sacred, and you need have no hesitation In revealing all, for you may be sure that no other human being will ever learn from me the details of your troubles." Well, that gave her more confidence, of course, and, gentlemen, this is what she told me.' "