Brown was thoughtful.
It was his usual style to make people take what he wanted for granted, as in the case of McGinnis.
This enabled him to lay back in his chair and say:
"I did not tell you to do anything of the kind. If you chose to put that interpretation on my words I can't help it. It wasn't my fault that you did."
He was a wily man.
But Tige was equally as wily.
Her safety lay in forcing her customers to commit themselves, and knowing that she would take no steps as regarded any patient without having received point-blank orders.
Brown was Helen's uncle.
Property of hers, which he had robbed her of, he managed to hold himself without question. But he dared not sell it or try to transfer it.
If Helen were insane, then it would be policy to prove her identity, be appointed her guardian, and then when she died, the court would decide that he was the legal heir, and confirm him in his title to the property.