Over this feature of the firm's activities I feel obliged, however, from a natural feeling of delicacy, to draw a veil.

Our function usually consisted in offering to see to it that a certain proposed action, based on certain injudicious letters, should be discontinued upon the payment of a certain specified sum of money.

These sums ranged in amount from five to twenty thousand dollars, of which we retained only one-half.

I understand that some lawyers make more than this percentage, but for such I have only contempt.

A member of a learned and honorable profession should be scrupulous in his conduct, and to keep for one's self more than half the money recovered for a client seems to me to be bordering on the unethical.