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Boyish and open-faced, blond and wavy-haired, a controlled drinker, a careful but quick-minded lawyer, Cass's old friend Bradd Criley was a pleasant fellow as well as the most valued dinner-guest and bridge-partner in Grand Republic. He was a bachelor, and he never toyed with any woman over forty nor with any girl under eighteen-- unless he was sure he would not be found out. He said to men, "I'm sorry, but I've been so busy" and to women, "You're so beautiful tonight." He said, possibly he believed, that Cass was the soundest judge on the Minnesota bench.
He came snowily in one evening when Cass was giving Jinny a lesson in chess; he insisted on reading till the game was finished; and afterward, as they talked, they three became a firm trio.