First: so you would rather suffer, and have others suffer, than cede control to someone who could practice law in that state? Second: refer to the first point. Third: first you accuse Crane of being a madman, and implicitly too incoherent to maintain records, and now you accuse him of reason? A thorough attempt would have at least tried to get at those records.

[Chilton sneered at Edgeworth, looking up up and down.]

The lives, and sanity, of other people are at stake too, Mr. Edgeworth. This is not just about you. If you're not willing to engage a bureaucratic nightmare for them at least, if they are not worth the effort to you, then just admit as much and we may move on.