Your cousin--I believe he is your cousin, Kendrick, although he did not mention the relationship--was grateful to me for giving him their names.

He is a practical man, himself." John nodded.

"He must be," he admitted.

"No one but a practical man could get all that advice, free, from a lawyer." Captain Obed laughed aloud.
"That's a good one," he declared.

"Lawyers ain't in the habit of GIVIN' much, 'cordin' to all accounts.