“Oh, I happen to be a barrister!” he explains. “I came in about another case, and, finding you'd been burgling, I thought I'd stay and see the fun.”
“Your case must take care of itself; come and lunch with me.”
Yes, he can escape. His case will not come on to-day, as mine has taken so long; and so we go forth together to begin a friendship that I trust may always endure.
And to this day I have never paid for Fisher's broken pane of glass.
