I asked the lawyer, privately, if any chance had offered itself of tracing Mr. James Smith.

No one glanced askance at Mr. Seaton's protegé or asked the lawyer idle questions regarding him.

David swayed in the high wind of this revelation; he asked the lawyer to repeat the sum.

Then Jesus asked the lawyer which of these three men was neighbor to him who fell among thieves.

Jack had asked the lawyer if they couldn't purchase some others and test them for the same defect.

He refilled his coffee cup, sat again and asked the lawyer outright what else he had to say.

Is it not so? asked the lawyer of the two merchants, evidently trying to drag them into the conversation.

How is it," asked the lawyer, turning sternly on his client, "that you have left me in the dark?"

The farmer asked the lawyer if he would read to the audience the name of the authority, if it was shown him.

But his brain seemed in its own way to go on searching for a solution, and one day he asked the lawyer:

"All this was known to you?" the Ancient P. asked the lawyer.

"Where is it recorded?" asked the lawyer with an air of innocence.

"Would you like to go back to Valpinson?" asked the lawyer again.

"Why should there be any doubt on that point?" asked the lawyer.

"The papers found in your room, you mean?" asked the lawyer.

"What is your idea of a gentleman, James?" asked the lawyer.