CHAPTER V.
FRED NEVILLE IS AGAIN CALLED HOME TO SCROOPE.
Neville was intent upon business, and had not been back in Ennis from the cottage half an hour before he obtained an introduction to an attorney.

He procured it through the sergeant-major of the troop.

The sergeant-major was intimate with the innkeeper, and the innkeeper was able to say that Mr.Thaddeus Crowe was an honest, intelligent, and peculiarly successful lawyer.

Before he sat down to dinner Fred Neville was closeted at the barracks with Mr.Crowe.
He began by explaining to Mr.Crowe who he was.

This he did in order that the attorney might know that he had the means of carrying out his purpose.