"
"Bring them to me in half an hour," and Kent walked into his private
office, carefully closing the door behind him. Opening his suit-case
he took out his brief bag and laid it on the desk in front of him
together with the package of letters. Instead of opening the letters
immediately, he tilted back in his chair and regarded the opposite
wall in deep thought. Philip Rochester could not have selected a
worse time to absent himself; three important cases were on the
calendar for immediate trial and much depended on the firm's
successful handling of them. Kent swore softly under his breath;
his last warning to Rochester, that he would dissolve their
partnership if the older man continued to neglect his practice, had
been given only a month before and upon Kent's return from eight
months' service in the Judge Advocate General's Department in France.
Apparently his warning had fallen on deaf ears and Rochester was
indulging in another periodic spree, for so Kent concluded, recalling
the unsteady penmanship of the note handed to him by the new clerk,
John Sylvester.
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