“Is this another charity patient?” asked his friend, with a grin.
“No,” replied Westover. “You can charge this fellow along the whole line.”
Before he parted with the lawyer he had his misgivings, and he said: “I shouldn't want the blackguard to think I had got a friend a fat job out of him.”
The lawyer laughed intelligently. “I shall only make the usual charge. Then he is a blackguard.”
“There ought to be a more blistering word.”
“One that would imply that he was capable of setting fire to his property?”
“I don't say that. But I'm glad he was away when it took fire,” said Westover.
“You give him the benefit of the doubt.”
“Yes, of every kind of doubt.”