The Professor stepped forward and flipped his Loyalty Oath over, it opened like a poison-ring. The engraving inside said TBI Morals Division.
"The Interlocutory Decree, if you please," he commanded.
Stunned, I fished it out and handed it over.
He glanced at it. "You realize of course that this is immediately invalidated."
"What?" I couldn't believe my ears.
"You know—as any Legal Eagle should know—that any re-stablishment of—uh—connubial rights abrogates an interlocutory."
"Of course I know that."
He glanced at Honest Pancho and smiled. There was triumph flashing between them like a shuttlecock. "You Joe Macs never learn. The law is the law. What do you think your clients were just doing—and in front of a roomful of witnesses?"
I felt my heart sink. "You mean—?"
Cripps nodded.