"I sat down all in a heap; for I didn't know the ways of a gentleman then, Bob, and covered my face with the horror I had of the humiliation he had done me. The lawyer, he misunderstood it, for he crept up softly and whispered in my ear: "'That's what he offers--if you're fool enough to take it; but if you'll stick to me, we can wring him to the tune of ten times that.' "I got up and took him and kicked him out of the room, and kicked him down the stairs, for he was a little man, and I wouldn't strike him. "Then I came back and said to myself: 'If matters are so, I must get the best advice I can.' "And I knew that Joseph Gilday was the top of the lot. So I went to him, and when I came in I stopped short, for I saw he looked perplexed, and I said: 'I'm in trouble, sir, and my life depends on it, and other lives, and I need the best of advice; so I've come to you. I'm Larry Moore of the Giants; so you may know I can pay.' Then I sat down and told him the story, every word as I've told you; and when I was all through, he said quietly: "'What are you thinking of doing, Mr. Moore?' "'I think it would be better if she came back, sir,' I said, 'for her and for the child. So I thought the best thing would be to write her a letter and tell her so; for I think if you could write the right sort of a letter she'd come back. And that's what I want you to show me how to write,' I said. "He took a sheet of paper and a pen, and looked at me steadily and said: 'What would you say to her?' "So I drew my hands up under my chin and thought awhile and said: 'I think I'd say something like this, sir: "'"My dear wife--I've been trying to think all this while what has driven you away, and I don't understand. I love you, Fanny Montrose, and I want you to come back to me. And if you're afraid to come, I want to tell you not a word will pass my lips on the subject; for I haven't forgotten that it was you made a man of me; and much as I try, I cannot hate you, Fanny Montrose."' "He looked down and wrote for a minute, and then he handed me the paper and said: 'Send that.' "I looked, and saw it was what I had told him, and I said doubtfully: 'Do you think that is best?' "'I do.' "So I mailed the letter as he said, and three days after came one from a lawyer, saying my wife could have no communication with me, and would I send what I had to say to him. "So I went down to Gilday and told him, and I said: 'We must think of other things, sir, since she likes luxury and those things better; for I'm beginning to think that's it--and there I'm a bit to blame, for I did encourage her. Well, she'll have to marry him--that's all I can see to it," I said, and sat very quiet. "'He won't marry her,' he said in his quick way. "I thought he meant because she was bound to me, so I said: 'Of course, after the divorce.' "'Are you going to get a divorce then from her?'