12/29 All we have to do is to present the evidence at our command--if we can get it. And, by God! we will get it if it costs us ten thousand dollars! Why, Quib, the thing is a windfall. Thirty-five thousand! Why, thirty-five _hundred_ for such a case would be a big fee!" "I don't know!" I answered, for I felt a curious premonition in the matter. "Something tells me that we ought to take no chances." "Come, come!" quoth Gottlieb, with a light show of irritation. You've done many a worse thing than this, to my own knowledge!" I do not pretend to any virtue in the matter and yet I must admit to some feelings of compunction about Mrs.Dillingham. |