human
My vacation ends next week, Professor. When I get back to New York I may be able to speed up things in the matter of the Schurman murder. You're staying here the rest of the summer aren't you?
gpt
Yes.
human
Really, Professor, I know you don't like to make guesses, but this is getting on all our nerves. How near to a solution are you?
gpt
If I were a lawyer or a newspaper man, the old man said tartly,
human
I should make a guess and arrest the murderer tomorrow. But lawyers and newspaper men use a weird type of logic. That is why lawyers and newspaper men are as often right as wrong. Legal logic, particularly, is something awful to contemplate.
gpt
Legal logic,
human
Is precisely what I said, snapped the old man.
gpt
How can you defend the logic of a judge who hands down a decision basing it on the statement that a dining car is not a railroad car. There is also the logic of a judge who handed down a decision basing it on the hypothesis that an overcoat is real estate. That is legal logic, Mr. McCall.