A CHEERFUL BRINGER OF BAD TIDINGS The announcement that Harwood was preparing to attack the reorganization of the White River Canneries corporation renewed the hopes of many victims of that experiment in high finance, and most of the claims reached Dan's office that summer.

The legal points involved were sufficiently difficult to evoke his best energies, and he dug diligently in the State Library preparing his case.

He was enjoying the cool, calm heights of a new freedom.

Many older men were eking out a bare living at the law, and the ranks were sadly overcrowded, but he faced the future confidently.

He meant to practice law after ideals established by men whose names were still potent in the community; he would not race with the ambulance to pick up damage suits, and he refused divorce cases and small collection business.