The Slum Heiress Bringing Down the Elite Clan novel · Chapter 24 of 24
Chapter 24: The Flats Stay
Dermot walked out of the courthouse on Thursday morning, charges dismissed, with his flat cap in his hand.
The judge had thrown out every charge in four minutes, once the magistrate's name came up in the district attorney's file.
Half of Pell Street stood on the steps in the rain, and the bartender had brought his apron.
He stopped at the top and looked at them all.
"I told ye to mind the bar," he said to me.
"I minded it."
"I can see that. There's a crowd out here fit to drink it dry."
They carried him down the steps on their shoulders, all five feet ten of him, protesting the whole way.
I walked behind, with Rafe's hand in mine, and I did not stop laughing until we reached the corner.
The deed had gone back to my father an hour before.
Harbor Ridge's note was frozen with the rest of Eugene's company, and the board had sold it to me that morning for one dollar.
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