With
Bearside he was fairly satisfied, thinking however that the man was
much more illiterate and ignorant than the general run of lawyers
in the United States; but with Goarly he was by no means satisfied.
Goarly endeavoured to keep out of his way and could not be induced
to come to him at the Bush. Three times he walked out to the house
near Dillsborough Wood, on each of which occasions Mrs. Goarly
pestered him for money, and told him at great length the history of
her forlorn goose. Scrobby, of whom he had heard, he could not see
at all; and he found that Bearside was very unwilling to say
anything about Scrobby. Scrobby, and the red herrings and the
strychnine and the dead fox were, according to Bearside, to be kept
quite distinct from the pheasants and the wheat. Bearside declared
over and over again that there was no evidence to connect his
client with the demise of the fox. When asked whether he did not
think that his client had compassed the death of the animal, he
assured the Senator that in such matters, he never ventured to
think.
"Let us go by the evidence, Mr. Gotobed," he said.
"But I am paying my money for the sake of getting at the facts."
"Evidence is facts, sir," said the attorney. "Any way let us settle
about the pheasants first"
The condition of the Senator's mind may perhaps be best made known
by a letter which he wrote from Dillsborough to his especial and
well-trusted friend Josiah Scroome, a member of the House of
Representatives from his own state of Mickewa.
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