What lawyer advised you to undertake the contest ?" "Dawson of Mitchell, Dawson, Vance & Bischoffsheimer.

As good lawyers as there are in the country." "I ought to tell you," said Dory, after brief hesitation, "that Judge Torrey calls them a quartette of unscrupulous scoundrels--says they're regarded as successful only because success has sunk to mean supremacy in cheating and double-dealing.

Would you mind telling me what terms they gave you--about fee and expenses ?" "A thousand down, and a note for five thousand," replied Arthur, compelled to speech by the misgivings Dory was raising within him in spite of himself.
"That is, as the first installment, they take about all the money in sight.

Does that look as if they believed in the contest ?" At this Arthur remembered and understood Dawson's remark, apparently casual, but really crucial, about the necessity of attaching Dr.Schulze.
Without Schulze, he had no case; and Dawson had told him so! What kind of a self-hypnotized fool was he, not to hear the plainest warnings?
And without waiting to see Schulze, he had handed over his money! "I know you think I am not unprejudiced about this will," Dory went on.
"But I ask you to have a talk with Judge Torrey.

While he made the will, it was at your father's command, and he didn't and doesn't approve it.