text:  But as if to finish the matter and to prove the knavish spirit in which this protestation was made he instantly got a _private_ friend and relative of his own with whom the whole scheme had been arranged beforehand to come forward and bring an action on the case in which the latter claimed the whole fund which would have belonged to the unlucky usher--in terms as he said of some old arrangement made by the Squire's predecessor as to school-salaries during vacancy; to be applied as the writ very coolly stated it "for behoof of Jack's destitute widow in the event of his decease and of his numerous and indigent family