"Don't you think a $25-a-day man ought to find out?"
"Perhaps; and perhaps I could have discovered that very thing if I had thought it wise to spend the time on it. After the mischief was done, it seemed hardly worth while to expend any effort to find the mischief maker. I decided it was best to get after the mischief itself and stop it."
"I suppose you're right," assented Mrs. Graham. "But it really would be a lot of satisfaction to know who the traitor is."
"This is no time to waste any of your efforts on revenge. That may come later, not now. But how about my fee?"
"You ask too much."
"I don't agree with you, That is a very small fee, compared with what some attorneys get. Why, I know lawyers who never take a case under $100 a day."
"That's in the big cities, where they are under heavy expenses-costly offices and office help."
"Where do you get your information?"
"Oh, I have traveled and lived," the woman replied with emphasis on the last word. "And I know there are plenty of judges who get only $10 a day, some less. Now, what do you think of that? Do you think you ought to get more than a judge?"
"Oh, fudge on the judges," Langford exclaimed in affected disgust. "No big lawyer will take one of those political jobs. There are lots of big lawyers making $50,000 or $100,000 a year, and there are few judges getting more than $10,000."