" She fortified herself with another
piece of candy. "All you need," she declared briskly, "is a good
lawyer to take this up and see it through."
"You seem to be doing pretty well," he remarked, his eyes
dwelling rather intently upon her face, and smiling as they did
so.
"I can read what's in the book," she remarked lightly, her eyes
upon its pages as if she were consciously holding them from
meeting his look. "But it will take a lawyer to see the case
through the courts. And let me tell you one thing very
emphatically." She looked at him brightly. "Many a case as
strong as this has been lost, just by legal quibbling and
ignorance of how to handle it properly. Many a case without a
leg to stand on has been won, by smooth work on the part of some
lawyer. Now, I'll just jot down what they'll have to do, and
prove, if they get that land--and look here, Mr. Man, here's
another thing to consider. Maybe Baumberger doesn't expect to
get a patent. Maybe he means to make old Peaceful so deucedly
sick of the thing that he'll sell out cheap rather than fight the
thing to a finish.
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