The veiled allusions were so thoroughly veiled in words that they were buried as if under mountains of veils.

Each slight hint was swamped in morasses of quotations and fine flourishes, overgrown and hidden by tropical verbiage, and covered up by philosophical and political phrases until nothing of the hint could be seen.

As he read on the attorney could see Doc Weaver talking, as plainly as if he stood before him; he could see him at his desk in a frenzy of composition, and he recognized the apt quotations from Shakespeare that were Doc's specialty.

Doc Weaver had written it.
The attorney laid the paper down and studied the matter.

How could Doc have learned of the affair?
Skinner, angry as he had been at having to buy the four fire-extinguishers, would never have dared to wreck the party he had helped to create.