But you fellows and whoever gets the job of defending the college's rights--" Dawson opened his arms and made a humorous, huge, in-sweeping gesture.
"And," he added, "Whitney's one of the trustees under the will.

See ?" "Thanks, old man." Vanorden was laughing like a shrewd and mischievous but through-and-through good-natured boy.

The two brilliant young leaders of the Illinois bar shook hands warmly.
And so it came about that Charles Whitney was soon indorsing a plan to cause, and to profit by, sly confusion--the plan of his able lawyers.
They had for years steered his hardy craft, now under the flag of peaceful commerce and now under the black banner of the buccaneer.

The best of pilots, they had enabled him to clear many a shoal of bankruptcy, many a reef of indictment.

They served well, for he paid well..