“There, sir; I think we understand each other, sir.”
“Humph! well, that’s according to how you put it. My knowledge is sufficient unto the day, at any rate. I am to visit Heath at once, taking young Vandyck with me; I am to insist upon his making a strong defence, and to watch him closely. Vandyck is to add his voice, and he’ll do it with a roar, and then we are to report to you. Is that it?”
“Exactly.”
The speakers are Lawyer O’Meara and “Mr. Wedron, of the New York Bar;” for more than an hour they have been seated in the lawyer’s study, conversing in low, earnest tones; and during this interval, O’Meara’s valuation of his vis-à-vis has evidently “taken a rise,” and stands now at a high premium. His spirits have risen, too; he views the case of Clifford Heath through a new lens; eviden
