21/29 Seven or eight years before this meeting he had been sent to Europe to finish his education. We shook hands; his father made me sit down, and asked what had brought me. He listened to my tale; and replied: "'You would require twenty or thirty thousand dollars. No one would lend you such a sum upon the uncertain chances of a very complicated lawsuit. That is not what Miss Percival asks.' "'I know that very well, but what she asks is impossible.' "He rose to let me out. |