:11:00
If you would be good enough to sign here
in the three places.
:11:03
Mr. Sloan, my loss is much more than $700.
:11:06
Why, your railroad killed
more than my lobsters.
:11:09
It probably killed my chances
for a successful season.
:11:11
- Mrs. Osgood...
- I'm sorry.
:11:13
- I only want what is right.
- Exactly.
:11:15
We're here in good faith, Mrs. Osgood.
The railroad believes you should...
:11:18
- Mum.
- Up here, sweetheart.
:11:21
Mum, I've passed my electricity elective.
:11:23
I've earned my Silver Arrow point.
Haven't I, Akela?
:11:26
You should have seen him.
He was really something.
:11:30
George, Mr. Harris and Mr. Sloan
of the E&P Railroad.
:11:33
- Gentlemen, my attorney, George Denham.
- Oh, yes.
:11:36
George, these gentlemen want me
to accept $700.
:11:41
Aren't you forgetting
the damage to Mrs. Osgood's business...
:11:43
- and her reputation?
- That's right.
:11:45
Marshalltown Country Club wrote and said
they would never order my lobsters again.
:11:49
They said that I ruined their Calcutta,
and they'll tell all the other country clubs.
:11:53
They've already told Epicure magazine,
and I can't advertise in there anymore.
:11:57
They said I misrepresented...
George wrote and told them in the letter.
:12:00
- That's right.
- Did you hear from counsel, Harris?
:12:02
- Of course he did.
- There was a rather odd communication.
:12:06
"As the Democratic candidate
for first selectman in Cape Anne...
:12:09
- "I'm asking for the endorsement"...
- Same as last year's letter.
:12:12
- I want you to go right to bed.
- I must have put the wrong letter...
:12:15
- in the right envelope.
- George, really.
:12:17
I apologise.
:12:19
Our station agent informs me that
you are a widow trying to support yourself...
:12:23
and your two children.
:12:24
Believe me, I'm speaking now
as one not unfamiliar...
:12:26
with the guiding spirit
of the Eastern & Portland Railroad.
:12:30
- Take this cheque.
- I will not.
:12:35
Including myself, the legal staff
of our organisation numbers 26 men.
:12:40
In the past year, thanks to the incandescent
personality of the man we serve...
:12:44
the E&P has been the defendant
in 314 litigations.
:12:48
Of those, we lost one.
:12:51
It involved an upper berth...
:12:53
an untimely addition
to the population of New Hampshire...
:12:55
and a recalcitrant conductor.
:12:58
You, as a lawyer at the bar,
I think, will agree with me...