Daily Yellowstone journal., 1891-03-29
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fnal class makes you doubtful Of every
other class. | call that a perveraon of
mind The next thing you will be hav-
ing grave suspicious of me-"
The Judge made a smiling rejoinder
such as a husband may venture with his
wife, and turned again to his writing.
The blazing logs cracked, the wife
gazed into the flare, her face lighted
with an inward as well as an outward
radiance. Had she not for several
months been DESTROYS Of Just such a re-
suit as she hoped would soon come
about? She would yet, she was con-
WINGED, see her only child the wife Of the
heir to millions, a woman OF the height
of social matters, an authority and the
envy of other women She could appre
ciate it to the fullest, for she had long
long ago, against the sage advice and
the warning Of friends, married a strug-
Cling lawyer in whom she saw what he
had since with her assistance developed
She gave herself some of the credit Of
her husbands success in life. She had
made him a study from the beginning,
gauging his weak points as she gagged
his strong, tutoring those and guarding
these, till he understood himself and saw
what she had ever tactfully, kindly and
appreciatively impressed upon him-his
duty 10 himself. her and their child.
This duty was to make of himself all
that it was possible to make, to scale
dizzy heights; and one of these heights
was about to he attained when his name
was associated in all honorable merit
and deserving with the highest Office Of
the state.
Surely he owed his wife much, and
she knew that he 50 reasoned. But she
had never liked to hear him speak of his
earlier days, when he had wandered, a
poor country lad, away from "the soft
eye music of slow waving bOughs' into
the cataclysm of warning men, each de-
termined TO ~supplant his brother, not,
like young Wilmington having the &C
claim of bells, but earnestly hopeful OF
making his way, and so the lady looked
into the fare and thought.
The FIRE cracked and flashed up TO the
pictured eyes that looked down upon the
Judge; from outside came the subdued
rattle Of a city night; a boy passed by
the house shrilly whistling. The judge
wrote.
In the strokes Of his pen, word by
word, letter by letter, he reasoned
against a life gone wrong, a mind thai
had digged beneath the ordinary II
guilt, while an equal effort in an OppO
site direction might have won the ad
miration of healthful reasoning. Blu
had it been generalization? Had it no
been a moment Of temptation: And wh'
is beyond temptation, though Of divinity
a man be not tempted beyond what he 1
able 10 resist:
The case was one Of peculiar interes
to the Judge; his decision would be crit
cally examined. Just now, with thu
g~overnorship in the perspective, ever
more than his enemies would grasp a
any flaw, the merest technicahty, Z
prove the feasibility Of higher honors 70
him. If he were lenient he might be &C
cused of weakness; if he were as sever.
as the fragrant crime might make tn
ordinary man who espoused the cause o
an outraged business community,
might be argued that a judge should b
a principle, never al individual.
So he must be careful. exact, havini
before him nothing but the cold facts o
the case; be an impartial, soulless arbite
of the evidence deduced in the trial.
From the room beyond came the acut
tones of a piano. A little prelude wa
played, and then a clear, girlish voic
broke into song. It was a tender httl
ballad which the daughter Of the hous
sang TO the man who sought TO win hel
In the study the mother Of the dangh
ter of the house, her gaze upon the har
of the fire, thought of the success TO b
achieved by the daughter, as she ha
ever thoughtof the success 10 be achieve
by the father Of that daughter.
In the study the judge penned his do
cision condemnatory Of a mar not 8
many years older than the lover of tn
daughter, with mean advantages, grea
temptations and an activity to be depr'
Gated, as was the passivity Of the othe
man.
The song hoated into the study, plain'
i've and aching. unsatished as all mus
is.
Did the judge hear 1t as he wrote h
decision? Did his wife hear it as sh
dreamed her ambitious dreams?