I'll tell you how it is," continued Geary, preparing to spring another mine; "he's found a letter Ida wrote you the day before she killed herself." He paused to watch the effect upon Vandover.

Vandover waited for him to go on, but seeing that he did not and that he expected him to say something, nodded his head once and answered: "I see." "Don't you know, that letter that she wrote to you telling you how it was, how she was fixed ?" repeated Geary, puzzled and irritated at Vandover's indifference.
"I know." "Well, he's got it, anyhow," pursued Geary, "and of course that tells against you.

Well, I had a long talk with him yesterday afternoon and I got him to compromise.

Of course, you know in suits like this one a party sues for a great deal more than he expects to get.

At first you know he said twenty-five thousand; that figure was decided upon at the first interview he had with us.