He had not wanted to name his fee for defending her dad; but when he had named it, it did not seem so enormous as she had imagined it to be.

He had asked a great many questions, and most of them puzzled Jean.

He had said that he would take up the matter,--by which she believed he meant an investigation of her uncle's title to the Lazy A.

He said that he would see her father, and he told her that he had already been retained to investigate the whole thing, so that she need not worry about having to pay him a fee.

That, he said, had already been arranged, though he did not feel at liberty to name his client.