Mr. Prior was thoroughly inured to conversing with corporation executives,--they were no novelty to him,--presumably, therefore, it was the second memorandum which caused Smith to be ushered almost immediately into the presence of the Attorney-General, who regarded his visitor with a good-humored smile on his clean-shaven lips. "Mr. Smith, I presume?" he inquired. "Yes, sir," the other answered. "I gather from this card," Mr. Prior pursued, glancing at it, "that you remember having seen me--elsewhere." "When I was fifteen years old," Smith replied. "And I've been to a good many games since, but I don't think I ever saw any one else kick a goal from the field at a mean angle on the forty-yard line with a stiff wind quartering against him." "Perhaps not--at least in the last two minutes of play," the Attorney-General agreed reflectively; and the New Yorker could easily pardon this embellishment. It was some little time later when Mr. Prior somewhat reluctantly returned to things mundanely legal so far as to ask his caller's business. Smith explained. When, on the following afternoon, he walked into President Wintermuth's office, if there was in his manner a certain undertrace of elation, it must be forgiven him, for this, his first stroke in his broad horizon, seemed thus far up to every expectation of success. "Well, what did you do?" was Mr. Wintermuth's greeting, as he looked up to find Smith before him. "The Attorney-General of Pennsylvania," said Smith slowly, "is going into court to-morrow to ask for an injunction, alleging conspiracy and restraint of trade, forbidding the Eastern Conference from enforcing a separation rule anywhere within the boundaries of the state." "What's that?" said the President, sharply. "A restraining order, you say?" "Yes. Mr. Prior, the Attorney-General, thinks he will have little trouble in securing a temporary injunction. Later on he will move to make this permanent, and there will doubtless be a fight on that; but he thinks he can beat them under the new Anti-Trust Law. In the meantime it ties up the Philadelphia and Pittsburgh boards, and I think we can get back most of the smaller Pennsylvania agents we've lost. Most of them are well disposed toward us; other things being equal, they'd be glad to restore the status quo, and none of them are anxious to be made joint defendants with the Conference companies in a conspiracy suit." Mr. Wintermuth said nothing for a long minute; then his face broke into almost the first sincere smile which had been seen on it since the opening of the year. "That's very well done--a good idea and well executed, Richard," he said. "Thank you, sir," said Smith. There was more discussion to follow, and the two went over the situation as a whole more fully than had been hitherto possible.