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So there was a possibility that the man would kill him. Why not? Who would ever know? They would think he disappeared with Orcutt's money would even institute a world-wide search from him but not in the bush. Thought of the money nerved him to speak. "How much will you take to get into your canoe and paddle back the way you came?" he asked. The breed laughed.
They reason that if the judges had their ability, they would not be poorly paid judges, but holding out their baskets for the fat fruit falling abundantly from the corporation trees. It should be said that the law was not Judge Orcutt's first love: probably was not his supreme mistress at any time.
With these encumbrances removed she could make ends meet. After a few weeks she forgot her doubts about the wisdom of following Judge Orcutt's advice and placing her interest in the estate together with her niece's in care of the trust company.
"I am a lawyer, and as such you will permit the smile at your mention of the equity court. You would not be allowed to enter its doors. For its first precept is: He who comes into equity must come with clean hands. Are your hands clean? I think not neither your hands nor Orcutt's. But, the matter will never reach the courts.
I don't believe you had to go home at all. You just wanted an excuse to get away from me." "I didn't need an excuse," she told him. He moved toward her, but she took a paper from the desk and carried it to a file across the room. "I thought we were going to be friends," he said. "Being friends doesn't mean being foolish," she retorted. "And Mr. Orcutt's waiting to see you." "Let him wait."
"They expired at twelve o'clock, noon, of July first, and the contract was not signed until two or three minutes after twelve." "By Orcutt's watch," retorted Cameron. "And Orcutt's watch was an hour faster than official time. I had no reason to suppose his watch was wrong, and believed the time had expired, until I was confronted, after your departure, by the accredited representative of McNabb.
Any sale or contract entered into with Orcutt or anyone else concerning title to these lands is, of course, void." Cameron continued to stare at his watch. "I do not understand it," he muttered. "I think I do," offered Hedin. "Was it Orcutt's watch you consulted?" "Yes, he laid it on the table, and we watched the hands mark off the time." "And you were an hour fast!
I don't believe you had to go home at all. You just wanted an excuse to get away from me." "I didn't need an excuse," she told him. He moved toward her, but she took a paper from the desk and carried it to a file across the room. "I thought we were going to be friends," he said. "Being friends doesn't mean being foolish," she retorted. "And Mr. Orcutt's waiting to see you." "Let him wait."
When she came to a certain small square, she turned off the main street unconsciously and walked up a quiet block towards the court-house. It was the path she had trod eleven years before, only in the reverse direction when she had led her aunt from Judge Orcutt's courtroom to the home of the Washington Trust Company.
"It's all right, Miss Bumpus," he said, and touched his hat as he escorted her to the bridge. She crossed the canal and went through the vestibule without replying to the greeting of the night-watchman, or noticing his curious glance; she climbed the steel-clad stairway, passed the paymaster's offices and Mr. Orcutt's, and gained the outer office where she had worked as a stenographer.
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