I said: “I feel that both our client and we ought to run the risk. Where is the certainty of the court upholding a wrong award simply because we do not admit the error? And supposing the admission were to bring the client to grief, what harm is there?”
“But why should we make the admission at all?” said the senior counsel.
“Where is the surety of the court not detecting the error or our opponent not discovering it?” said I.
“Well then, will you argue the case? I am not prepared to argue it on your own terms,” replied the senior counsel with decision.
I humbly answered: “If you will not argue, then I am prepared to do so, if our client so desires. I shall have nothing to do with the case if the error is not admitted.”
With this I looked at my client. He was a little embarrassed. I had been in the case from the very first. The client fully trusted me, and knew me through and through. He said: “Well, then, you will argue the case and admit the error. Let us lose, if that is to be our lot. God defends the right.”
I was delighted. I had expected nothing less from him. The senior counsel again warned me, pitied me for my obduracy, but congratulated me all the same.
What happened in the court we shall see in the next chapter.