“That is too bad. Well, your father can make the railroad foot the bill.”
“So they say.”
“To be sure he can. Has he had legal advice yet?”
“I think not.”
“Then tell him, for me, that he had better do nothing with the company until he gets advice from a lawyer.”
“I’ll tell him. But why is that best, if I may ask?”
“If he is not careful they will pay him some small amount, and then get him to sign papers releasing them from further obligations. I know a woman whose husband was killed on the railroad. She accepted five hundred dollars, and released the railroad. If she had brought suit she might have got ten or fifteen thousand dollars.”
“I see. Will you be in Claster one of these days?”
“I am going there day after to-morrow.”
“Then I wish you’d call on father. I know he’d like to see you, and perhaps he will want to retain you as his lawyer.”