How did the hack driver describe the people of New Mullion to
the lawyer
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AFTER graduating with honours, I became a junior assistant clerk in amagnificent law firm. I was sent, not to prepare legal briefs, but toserve summons, like a cheap private detective. I had to go to dirty andshadowy corners of the city to seek out my victims. Some of the largerand more self-confident ones even beat me up. I hated this unpleasantwork, and the side of city life it revealed to me. I even consideredfleeing to my hometown, where I could have been a real lawyer rightaway, without going through this unpleasant training period.So I rejoiced one day when they sent me out forty miles in thecountry, to a town called New Mullion, to serve summons on a mancalled Oliver Lutkins. We needed this man as a witness in a law case,and he had ignored all our letters.When I got to New Mullion, my eager expectations of a sweet andsimple country village were severely disappointed. Its streets wererivers of mud, with rows of wooden shops, either painted a sour brown,or bare of any paint at all. The only agreeable sight about the placewas the delivery man at the station. He was about forty, red-faced,cheerful, and thick about the middle. His working clothes were dirtyand well-worn, and he had a friendly manner. You felt at once thathe liked people.“I want,” I told him, “to find a man named Oliver Lutkins.”“Lutkins? I saw him around here about an hour ago. Hard fellow tocatch though — always up to something or other. He’s probably tryingto start up a poker game in the back of Fritz’s shop.