He knew that Mr.Bohlmann was ranked as a millionaire already, and was growing richer fast.

Yet--Peter needed no blank walls.
During this summer, Peter had a little more law practice.

A small grocer in one of the tenements came to him about a row with his landlord.

Peter heard him through, and then said: "I don't see that you have any case; but if you will leave it to me to do as I think best, I'll try if I can do something," and the man agreeing, Peter went to see the landlord, a retail tobacconist up-town.
"I don't think my client has any legal grounds," he told the landlord, "but he thinks that he has, and the case does seem a little hard.

Such material repairs could not have been foreseen when the lease was made." The tobacconist was rather obstinate at first.