"If I could talk like that," said a lawyer to the proud mother, "I'd have spoken for a couple of hours." Mrs.Stirling herself wished it had been longer.

Four columns of evidence, and only a little over a half column of speech! It couldn't have taken him twenty minutes at the most.

"Even the other lawyer, who had nothing to say but lies, took over a column to his speech.

And his was printed close together, while that of Peter's was spread out (_e.g._ solid and leaded) making the difference in length all the greater." Mrs.
Stirling wondered if there could be a conspiracy against her Peter, on the part of the Metropolitan press.

She had promptly subscribed for a year to the New York paper which glorified Peter the most, supposing that from this time on his name would appear on the front page.