ough!"

As the train started again Morgan H. Rogers let fall his magazine
and growled half-facetiously:

"What the devil are all those telegrams about?"

"Just a little injunction suit," the young man answered modestly,
"in which my firm has been quite successful." And, without giving
any names--for, indeed, there were none--he sketched rapidly a
hypothetical situation of the greatest legal delicacy, in which he
had tied up an imaginary railroad system with an injunction,
supposedly just made permanent. Morgan H. Rogers became interested
and offered Mr. Baldwin a remarkably big cigar. He had been having
a few troubles of his own of a similar character. In a few moments
the two were deep in the problems of one of the financier's own
transcontinental lines and a week later Baldwin was on Rogers'
regular staff of railroad attorneys.

It is pleasant to reflect upon such happy incidents in the history
of a profession that probably offers more difficulties to the
beginner than any other. Yet the very obstacles to success in it
are apt to develop an intellectual agility and a flexibility of
morals which, in the long run, may well lead not only to fortune,
but to fame--of one sort or another. I recall an incident in my
own career, upon my ingenuity in which, for a time, I looked back
with considerable professional pride, until I found it a common
practice among my elders and contemporaries of the criminal and
even of the civil bar.

It so happened that I had an elderly client of such an exceedingly
irascible disposition that he was always taking offence at imaginary
insults and was ready to enter into litigation of the fiercest
character at the slightest excuse. Now, though he was often in
the right, he was nevertheless frequently in the wrong--and equally
unreasonable in either case. He was turned over to me in despair
by another and older attorney, who could do nothing with him and
wished me joy in my undertaking. I soon found that the old
gentleman's guiding principle was "Millions for defence, but not
one cent for tribute." In other words, as he always believed
himself to have been imposed upon, he litigated almost every bill
that was presented to him, with the result that three times out of
five judgment was given against him. He had himself studied for
the bar and had a natural fondness for technicalities; and he was
quite ready to pay handsomely any one he believed to be zealously
guarding his interest