At any rate
he had no means of escaping, and the Senator came. The two men were
alone at the house and the Senator was full of his own wrongs as
well as those of Englishmen in general. Mr. Bearside had written to
him very cautiously, but pressing for an immediate remittance of 25
pounds, and explaining that the great case could not be carried on
without that sum of money. This might have been very well as being
open to the idea that the Senator had the option of either paying
the money or of allowing the great case to be abandoned, but that
the attorney in the last paragraph of his letter intimated that the
Senator would be of course aware that he was liable for the whole
cost of the action be it what it might. He had asked a legal friend
in London his opinion, and the legal friend had seemed to think
that perhaps he was liable. What orders he had given to Bearside he
had given without any witness, and at any rate had already paid a
certain sum. The legal friend, when he heard all that Mr. Gotobed
was able to tell him about Goarly, had advised the Senator to
settle with Bearside, taking a due receipt and having some person
with him when he did so. The legal friend had thought that a small
sum of money would suffice. "He went so far as to suggest," said
the Senator with indignant energy, "that if I contested my
liability to the man's charges, the matter would go against me
because I had interfered in such a case on the unpopular side.
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