"You see I have left all my other clients' affairs, to come after my stray lamb: I expect I shall find them in a pretty muddle.

"Our duty as sworn officers of the judicial branch of the Government renders it incumbent upon us to perform whatever services our clients' exigencies demand," was Mr. Tutt's way of putting it.

They had the reputation of being sound lawyers if not overafflicted with a sense of professional dignity, whose word was better than their bond, yet who, faithful to their clients' interests knew no mercy and gave no quarter.

"Well, we don't discuss our clients' affairs over the telephone.

He appears to have speculated rather heavily and considerably beyond his means, for when a sudden spasm of the market upset his calculations, it turned out that he had been employing his clients' capital and securities.

Would it be a good advertisement for the famous George Fairfax to have it known that, while he was taking his clients' money he was dining pleasantly in Paris with the man they were paying him to find?

May your gowns swarm until you can determine The strife no more between yourselves and vermin Than you have done between your clients' purses; Now kneel and take the last and worst of curses May you be honest when it is too late; That is, undone the only way you hate.

After pleading they were permitted to give a summary in writing of "the principal points of importance as well as their clients' grounds of defence."

" "He is very nice and sympathetic," I retorted with some emphasis, "but he doesn't make himself agreeable by divulging his clients' secrets.

He might have it a hundred times over in Godfrey Mills's handwriting, but he could never produce that as evidence, since again the charge of fraudulent employment of clients' money would be in the air.

" "I'm not so sure about his clients' wives," said Deppingham, with a vast haw-haw!

With this essential difference in the conditions under which a banker lends his depositors' money to a local customer, and those under which an international house lends its clients' money to a borrowing country, it follows that the responsible party in the latter case ought to exercise very much more care to see that the money is well spent.

So while Mr. Tutt drew their clients' wills, it was Tutt who attempted to probate and execute them.

Nobody but a lawyer who has the most intimate knowledge of his clients' daily life and affairs has the remotest suspicion ofOh, well, we won't go into that!