"He recovered his reason.

He wanted to undo the mischief that old sneak Hargrave had drawn him into!" The case was complete: His father had been insane when he made the will, had repented afterward, but had been unable to unmake it; his only son Arthur Ranger, now head of the family, owed it to the family's future and to its two helpless and oversentimental women to right the wrong.

A complete case, a clear case, a solemn mandate.

Interest and duty were synonymous--as always to ingenious minds.
He lost no time in setting about this newly discovered high task of love and justice.

Within twenty minutes he was closeted with Dawson of the great law firm, Mitchell, Dawson, Vance & Bischoffsheimer, who had had the best seats on all the fattest stranded carcasses of the Middle West for a decade--that is, ever since Bischoffsheimer joined the firm and taught its intellects how on a vast scale to transubstantiate technically legal knowledge into technically legal wealth.