You and Ernest will have to get married pretty quickly." Father insisted on laboratory methods.

He brought the Sierra Mills into court, but he could not bring the books of the Sierra Mills into court.
He did not control the courts, and the Sierra Mills did.

That explained it all.

He was thoroughly beaten by the law, and the bare-faced robbery held good.
It is almost laughable now, when I look back on it, the way father was beaten.

He met Wickson accidentally on the street in San Francisco, and he told Wickson that he was a damned scoundrel.