Book 3, Chapter 11: The Short Circuit Again

⁠​​​‌​​​​​​​‌​‌​‌‌​​​‌‌​​‌‌‌‌​‌‌‌​​​​‌‌‌​​​‌‌‌‌​‌‌​​​‌‌‌‌​​‌‌‌​​​⁠It was, after all, out of that limbo that Jimmy had spoken of as the margin of the unforeseeable, that the blind instrument of Fate appeared. He was a country lawyer from down-state, who, for a client of his own, had retained Rodney to defend a will that presented complexities in the matter of perpetuities and contingent remainders utterly beyond his own powers. He'd been in Chicago three or four