We only want about another half-crown," said Erebus.
Mr.Carrington found Mr.Tupping at home; and he could not have gone to a better man, for though the lawyer had given up active practise, he still retained the work of a few old clients in whom he took a friendly interest; and among them was Mrs.Dangerfield.
He was eager to prevent the Terror from being prosecuted for poaching not only because the scandal would annoy her deeply but also because she could so ill afford the expense of the case.

He readily fell in with the view of Mr.Carrington that they had better take the offensive, and that the violent behavior of Mr.D'Arcy Rosenheimer had given them the weapons.
The result of their council was that not later than seven o'clock that evening Mr.D'Arcy Rosenheimer was served by the constable of Little Deeping with a summons for an assault on Violet Anastasia Dangerfield, and with another summons for an assault on Bertram Carrington, F.R.
S.; and in the course of the next twenty minutes his keeper was served with a summons for an assault on Rupert Carrington.
Though on recovering consciousness he had sent the keeper to scour the neighborhood for Wiggins and the Terror, Mr.D'Arcy Rosenheimer was in a chastened shaken mood, owing to the fact that he had been "put to sleep by an uppercut on the point." He made haste to despatch a car into Rowington to bring the lawyer who managed his local business.
The lawyer knew his client's unpopularity in the county, and advised him earnestly to try to hush these matters up.

He declared that however Pomeranian one might be by extraction and in spirit, no bench of English magistrates would take a favorable view of an assault by a big young man on a middle-aged higher mathematician of European reputation, or on Miss Violet Anastasia Dangerfield, aged thirteen, gallantly rescuing that higher mathematician's little boy from wrongful arrest and detention.
Mr.D'Arcy Rosenheimer held his aching head with both hands, protested that they had done all the effective assaulting, and protested his devotion to the sacred bird beloved of the English magistracy.

But he perceived clearly enough that he had let that devotion carry him too far, and that a Bench which never profited by it, so far as to shoot the particular sacred birds on which it was lavished, would not be deeply touched by it.

Therefore he instructed the lawyer to use every effort to settle the matter out of court.
The lawyer dined with him lavishly, and then had, himself driven over to Little Deeping in the car, to Mr.Carrington's house.