If I can't
clear you with or without money, I'd better give up the practice of
law right here and now. Do you think you'd be willing to trust me?"
Donald hesitated for a moment, glancing from Noah's honest, homely
face to Mr. Gooch's sneering one, then he jumped to a decision.
"It's a go, Wick! And the fee--"
Noah extended a hand, the breadth of whose palm has already been
commented upon.
"The fee be damned," he drawled.
CHAPTER XXIV
Donald Morley packed his few belongings and went on his small mission
for the _Herald-Post_ with a determination worthy of a larger cause.
The remuneration was less than he had been in the habit of paying his
stable boy, but failure to secure a position, together with a depleted
bank account, had chastened his spirit, and he was ready to grasp at
anything that would give him a chance to justify the belief of his
friends.
When he first arrived at the sleepy little town where the state
transacted its business, he took two rooms at the hotel. Later he
moved to a boarding-house, and by the end of the third week he was in
a small, bare room in an office building, eating his breakfasts at the
depot, his luncheons at a restaurant, and his dinners at the hotel.
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