18/21 The man who sued him is a horrid person, and father says that if he don't go right back, the next thing he'll hear will be that old Colbert will be trying to get a foot instead of four inches." "Old Colbert!" ejaculated Rectus, "I guess that must be my father." If I had been Rectus, I don't think I should have been so quick to guess anything of that kind about my father; but perhaps he had heard things like that before. He took it as coolly as he generally took everything. I'll go this very minute and see." Rectus was right. |