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In the end Vandover was sacrificed -- the opportunity was too good -- Geary could not resist the chance for a `` deal . '' Ah , you bet , just think of it , after all , not only would Vandover believe that Geary was doing him a great service , but the office would be delighted with him for winning his first case , they would get a heavy fee from Wade , and he would nearly double his money invested in the block in the Mission . As soon as he had made up his mind to put the `` deal '' through , he had seen Vandover at his rooms early in the morning and had induced him to promise not to engage any other counsel and in general keep very quiet about the whole business . The day after , he and Beale , Jr. , had an appointment with Hiram Wade , but toward noon Beale , Jr. , disappeared , leaving word for Geary that he had gone to court with his father to hear the closing arguments in the great suit against the monopoly , the last struggle in the tremendous legal battle that had embroiled the whole office ; Geary was to use his own judgment in the Wade case . Geary laboured with Hiram Wade all that afternoon . The old fellow mistrusted him on account of his youth and his inexperience , was unwilling to arrive at any definite conclusion without the sanction of Geary 's older associate , and for a long time would listen to nothing less than ten thousand dollars , crying out that his gray hairs had been dishonoured , and striking his palm upon his forehead . Nothing could move him .