His thoughts were in a whirl. The only thing
that stood out clearly was the difference in the two cases. He knew
perfectly that after Baker's effort to lift bodily from the public
domain a large block of its wealth every decent citizen should cry,
"Stop thief!" Instinctively he felt, though as yet he could not analyze
the reasons for so feeling, that to deprive the Wolverine Company of its
holdings would work a crying injustice. Yet, to all intents and
purposes, apparently, the cases were on all fours. Both Welton and
Baker had taken advantage of a technicality.
When Bob began to think more clearly, he at first laid this difference
to a personal liking, and was inclined to blame himself for letting his
affections cloud his sense of justice. Baker was companionable, jolly,
but at the same time was shrewd, cold, calculating and unscrupulous in
business. He could be as hard as nails. Welton, on the other hand, while
possessing all of Baker's admirable and robust qualities, had with them
an endearing and honest bigness of purpose, limited only--though
decidedly--by his point of view and the bounds of his practical
education.
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