I--" "I saw that; so I gave you another chance.

Starting on the annals of your profession, I proposed a question to you which ought to have aroused in you a desire to defend the public utility of the great legal luminaries of the past.

I practically denied that judges are any good at all.

Instead of showing me, as you very easily might have, that it was the judges who created the public opinion which put a stop to duelling, and not public opinion which goaded the judges on to hang the duellists, you--" "I wanted to know, and I still want to know, why you changed your mind." "If you can't think that out for yourself," said Meldon, "I'm not going to do it for you.

A man like you ought to be able to follow a perfectly simple line of thought like that.