[The Honorable Peter Stirling and What People Thought of Him by Paul Leicester Ford]@TWC D-Link bookThe Honorable Peter Stirling and What People Thought of Him CHAPTER XVI 8/16
When she found it did not and that it was not mentioned in the press and Health Board crusade against the other "swill-milk" dealers, she became convinced that there was some definite attempt to rob Peter of his due fame.
"Why, Peter began it all," she explained, "and now the papers and Health Board pretend it's all their doings." She wrote a letter to the editor of the paper--a letter which was passed round the office, and laughed over not a little by the staff.
She never received an answer, nor did the paper give Peter the more attention because of it. Two days after the trial, Peter had another call from Dummer. "You handled that case in great style, Mr.Stirling," he told Peter. "You know the ropes as well as far older men.
You got just the right evidence out of your witnesses, and not a bit of superfluous rubbish. That's the mistake most young men make.
They bury their testimony in unessential details, I tell you, those two children were worth all the rest put together.
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