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Before another week had ended all Denboro was chuckling over the joke. Eb Tadgett had sold some of his secondhand junk to Mrs. Capt. Elijah Truman and when she got the table, or bureau or sideboard or whatever it was, home and had a chance to look at it in a good light, naturally she didn't want it and wouldn't pay the bill. So Tadgett--ha, ha!--was calculating to sue her in court, and he'd coaxed young Bradford into handling the case for him. Did you ever in your born days! Ebenezer Tadgett trying to make Mrs. Elijah Truman do something she didn't want to do! And the Bradford boy picking his chestnuts out of the fire for him! Nice way for a new lawyer to start in, wasn't it?
Most people professed to be sorry for Banks. They blamed Abijah Bradford for letting the young fellow make such a fool of himself. Several well-meaning friends dropped in at the Malabar Hotel and hinted to the captain that he use his influence to have the matter quashed. "Let the boy back out before Lawyer Brooks kicks him out," was their counsel. Captain Bije shrugged in pretended indifference.