I want to know where he got that scrap of paper.

Above everything, Breton, I want to know what he'd got to do with you!" He gave the young barrister a keen look, and Breton nodded.
"Yes," he said.

"I confess that's a corker.

But I think----" "Well ?" said Spargo.
"I think he may have been a man who had some legal business in hand, or in prospect, and had been recommended to--me," said Breton.
Spargo smiled--a little sardonically.
"That's good!" he said.

"You had your very first brief--yesterday.
Come--your fame isn't blown abroad through all the heights yet, my friend! Besides--don't intending clients approach--isn't it strict etiquette for them to approach ?--barristers through solicitors ?" "Quite right--in both your remarks," replied Breton, good-humouredly.
"Of course, I'm not known a bit, but all the same I've known several cases where a barrister has been approached in the first instance and asked to recommend a solicitor.