All that's necessary is for a lawyer to take it up.

I don't know any lawyers, and when I saw you riding up from the road gate I said to myself: 'Here's the very man I want,--and it's full time I should get something from people who have taken nearly everything from me.'" Mr Brandon bowed.
"And now," continued the old lady, "I am going to put the case into your hands.

The man is, evidently, a good-for-nothing scoundrel, and has probably spent the little money that her miserable father left her.

It's a clear case of desertion, and there should be no trouble at all in getting the divorce." Mr Brandon looked down upon the floor of the porch, and smiled.

This was a pretty case, he thought, to put into his hands.