Others didn't have to put up such sums, he said--why should he? And
the old man growled at him, 'The rest have other things to give.
One can deliver the letter-carriers, another is paid for by a
corporation. But what can you do? What is there to you but your
money?'--So Davy paid the money--didn't you, Davy?" And Davy grinned
sheepishly.
"Even so," she went on, "he came off better than poor Devon. They
got fifty thousand out of him, and sold him out, and he never got to
Congress after all! That was just before he concluded that America
wasn't a fit place for a gentleman to live in."
--And so Mrs. Billy got started on the Devons! And after that came
the Havens and the Wymans and the Todds--it was midnight before she
got through with them all.
CHAPTER XVIII
The newspapers said nothing more about the Hasbrook suit; but in
financial circles Montague had attained considerable notoriety
because of it. And this was the means of bringing him a number of
new cases.
But alas, there were no more fifty-thousand-dollar clients! The
first caller was a destitute widow with a deed which would have
entitled her to the greater part of a large city in
Pennsylvania--only unfortunately the deed was about eighty years
old.
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