The letters are lying somewhere in his desk.

Besides, after the Transcontinental decision he was heard to say that he'd have Judge Rossmore off the Bench inside of a year." "And it wasn't a vain boast--he's done it," muttered the judge.
Shirley relapsed into silence.

Her brain was in a whirl.

It was true then.

This merciless man of money, this ogre of monopolistic corporations, this human juggernaut had crushed her father merely because by his honesty he interfered with his shady business deals! Ah, why had she spared him in her book?
She felt now that she had been too lenient, not bitter enough, not sufficiently pitiless.