Chapter 25: A Girl and a Matter of Honor

⁠​​​‌​​​​‌‌​‌​‌‌​‌​‌​​​​​​​​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌‌​​​‌‌‌‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​‌​​‌​‌‌‌​⁠It had been a protracted session.

Judge Ambrose Warren, corporation counsel for the Consolidated, leaned back in his chair and gazed at the ceiling over the peak of the skeleton structure he had erected in front of his nose with his fingers.

Colonel Dodd squinted first at his nephew and then at the bouquet on his desk.

The nephew had been attempting by all the methods known to the appealing male to w