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Neither of the two men, waiting in the silent house, underestimated the importance of the coming interview. The night was already far spent, and the expected visitor still delayed. At length the pale secretary appeared at the door to announce his coming. Gard rose from his seat, and extended a welcoming hand to gray-haired, sharp-featured District Attorney Field.
"Quib," said he, "this fellow must never come back! do you understand? Once the district attorney gets hold of him, it's all up with us! It's Sing Sing for each of us ten years of it! For God's sake, hire somebody to put him out of the way! quietly. Many a man would take him off our hands for a thousand or so."
Law he chose as a profession; and, in order to secure the highest advantages, entered the office of a distinguished attorney in the city of New York, and gave to its study the best efforts of a clear, acute and logical mind. Self-reliant, proud, and in the habit of reaching his ends by the nearest ways, he took his place at the bar with a promise of success rarely exceeded.
The leaders might fail us now as heretofore. Indeed, they might." Coldevin drank from his glass. "I cannot say that I remember their failing us heretofore," said the Attorney. "Do you refer to any particular occasion when the leaders have betrayed us?" "Well, yes. Promises have been broken, promises have been interpreted, promises have been openly and dispassionately denied.
At the end of the reading, without looking up, she stretched out her hand and whispered softly: "Give me my dear father's letter now." The attorney, who was engaged in re-folding the documents and restoring them to the japanned box, left his seat, and came to her side, and placed the letter in her hands. "Thanks, Mr. Kage," she said, wiping her eyes and looking up.
Was it possible that I, like Mr. Trevor, had been deprived of all the morals I had ever possessed? Could it be that the district attorney was looking calmly on while Mr. Cooke wilfully corrupted the Far Harbor chief-of-police? As agonizing a minute as I ever had in my life was that which it took McCann to survey those cigars.
"Is the associate's name Selenin?" he asked the lawyer. "Yes, why?" "I know him very well; he is an excellent man " "And a good associate of the Attorney General very sensible. It would have been well to see him," said Fanirin.
I began to feel very low indeed and could only say haltingly, "I acted in good faith, gentlemen," when Mr Miller kindly recommended that I be excused since I had evidently given all the information at my command. "Subject to recall," growled Attorney General Smith. "Oh, certainly, sir, certainly," agreed Mr Miller, and I was thankfully released from my ordeal. "Josephine Spencer Francis."
Luke Gamble, on the Blind Quay, attorney to the late Charles Nutter, and jumping to the ground, delivered a rattling summons thereupon. It was a dusty, dreary, wainscoted old house indeed, two old houses intermarried with doors broken through the partition walls the floors not all of a level joined by steps up and down and having three great staircases, that made it confusing.
To arrest his father's recollection of the various occasions on which his illegality had betrayed him into loss and damage, Dick blurted out, 'I'd rather break stones on the road than I'd be an attorney.
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