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His object is present plunder , and the inducing your father , through the agency of that scoundrel London lawyer , to make him sign such documents that everything that can be willed away will be made over to him . We must , to-morrow , proceed in a body to the Hall , and take the villains by surprise . I will now return home and prepare some necessary documents . As this is a criminal matter , I will also take care to have the attendance of an upright and clear-seeing magistrate , who will proceed with us -- not certainly later than ten o'clock to morrow . '' He then took his leave , with an air of much importance , and more alacrity than I could have expected from a man of his years . When Pigtop and myself were left alone , neither the first nor the second nor ' - wester of brandy-and-water could arouse him from his sullen mood . He told me frankly , and in his own sea-slang , that he could not disintegrate the idea of a lawyer from that of the devil , and that he was assured that neither I nor my cause would prosper if I permitted the interference of a land-shark .