He had no talent for business; things went wrong with him from the first.

His clerk, it was strongly suspected, cheated him--" "Stop a bit," says I."What was that suspected clerk's name ?" "Davager," says he.
"Davager," says I, making a note of it.

"Go on, Mr.Frank." "His affairs got more and more entangled," says Mr.Frank; "he was pressed for money in all directions; bankruptcy, and consequent dishonor (as he considered it) stared him in the face.

His mind was so affected by his troubles that both his wife and daughter, toward the last, considered him to be hardly responsible for his own acts.

In this state of desperation and misery, he--" Here Mr.Frank began to hesitate.
We have two ways in the law of drawing evidence off nice and clear from an unwilling client or witness.