I'm not a 'poor young lawyer' as they said.

My mother is comfortably off, and gives me an ample allowance." "Yes ?" "And what is more," continued Peter, "while they were right in saying that I paid some of the expenses of the case, yet I was more than repaid by my fees in some civil suits I brought for the relatives of the children, which we settled very advantageously." "Won't you sit down, Mr.Stirling ?" said Miss De Voe.

"I should like to hear about the cases." Peter began a very simple narrative of the matter.

But Miss De Voe interjected questions or suppositions here and there, which led to other explanations, and before Peter had finished, he had told not merely the history of the cases, but much else.

His mention of the two Dooley children had brought out the fact of their visit to his mother, and this had explained incidentally her position in the world.