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_[See Clark's Criminal Law, p. 274, or any good text-book for the general principles of law herein concerned. See especially State vs. Reddick, 48 Northwestern Reporter, 846, and the long list of cases there cited, on the proposition that the taking of partnership funds by one of the general partners, even with felonious intent, constitutes no crime. Also, Gary vs. Northwestern Masonic Aid Association, 53 Northwestern Reporter, 1086.]_
AFTER some thirty years, one begins to appreciate in a slight degree the mystery of things in counter-distinction to the mystery of men. He learns with dumb horror that startling and unforeseen events break into the shrewdest plans and dash them to pieces utterly, or with grim malice wrench them into engines of destruction, as though some mighty hand reached out from the darkness and shattered the sculptor's marble, or caught the chisel in his fingers and drove it back into his heart.