presuggested

Updated: May 15, 2025

"He 'breached the contract, as the lawyers say. It was his own doing. "He has put me to considerable expense and trouble, not to say danger. He was aware of that, and yet he refused to pay his share. He accused me of incompetence. Very well. That presuggested that I must have made an error, and it was on that assumption that he said I did not know my business.

Victor [pseud.] Appleton - Tom Swift and His Undersea Search, or, the Treasure on the Floor of the Atlantic