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However, he realises that an argument of that nature might easily become personal and that if anything unpleasant occurred he would require a witness. So he arranges to have you present. Do you see the point, Mr. Enright?" The lawyer's eyes sought Lacy, and then returned to the stern face confronting him. His lips sputtered: "As as a witness?"
It was long past noon when a diversion took place which served at any rate to interest and amuse the crying child. On the platform above the doorway Cynegius came forth Cynegius, the Emperor's delegate; a stout man of middle height, with a shrewd round head and a lawyer's face.
He had been more fortunate than could have been expected in the profession he had chosen, for he had scarcely been three years turning over musty deeds, copying legal documents and other drudgeries appertaining to a lawyer's office, when his employer died, leaving him the business and recommending him to the notice of his clients generally. But this was not sufficient for him.
Now the people who had begun to fetch and carry tales between the two magnates told him of the lawyer's recent visits to Clifford Hall, and he had some misgivings that the Colonel had sent for the lawyer to alter his will and disinherit, in whole or in part, his absent and rebellious son. All this taken together made Mr.
Again the lawyer's meditations told him that small hope was to be found in this direction. Were there any persons in the city who might be supposed to feel enmity or ill-will towards the singer? Many a one of the young nobles had, doubtless, been kept at arms' length by Bianca in a manner that might easily be supposed to breed hatred in a vain and ill-conditioned heart.
"Don't try to come that dodge! Everybody says you're well fixed. Everybody says you've got a neat little pile salted away." The lawyer's face was ashen, and his lips were quivering; but there was a fine dignity in the poise of the old man's head, and in the squared shoulders.
Only one thing," added Jim, holding a finger up, "when I say 'money down, I mean bills payable when the ship returns, and if the information proves reliable. I don't buy pigs in pokes." I had seen the lawyer's face light up for a moment, and then, at the sound of Jim's proviso, miserably fade. "I guess you know more about this wreck than I do, Mr. Pinkerton," said he.
"You might write and explain to your aunt." "I might if I wanted her to get round to her lawyer's in two rapid leaps and cut me out of her will." I saw his point. "What do you suggest, Jeeves?" I said. Jeeves cleared his throat respectfully. "The crux of the matter would appear to be, sir, that Mr.
Cleeve of the receipt of her well-reasoned argument for retrocession was, naturally, a bitter attack upon himself for having been guilty of such cruel carelessness as to leave in her way the lawyer's letter that had first made her aware of his uncle's provision for him.
"Promise me again before you go that you will come back here before you relinquish your homestead to Boyle," she demanded. "Promise me that, no matter what the lawyer's opinion may be, you'll return here before you do anything else at all." "I promise you," said he. When he had ridden a little way he halted his horse and turned in his saddle to look back.
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