Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1891-07-11

! l believe some OF the women who bother
us borrow the babies they bring with
them; baby is supposed to be most
pathetic adjunct to an appeal. Do you
remember that old toothless one who
came here with twins in long clothes?"
"Then the wife and baby of an accused
man are down stairsY'
"His mother, sir" ventured Catharine.
"And without baby"
well, suppose 1 shah have TO see
her." said the judges wife. st is the
mother of the man whose case you are
engaged on
"What man?"
Dunlap"
Again the name Of the man may have
influenced the judge. AS his wife arose
from her chair he said:
my dear, perhaps you had better slip
on a shawl. Your diamonds, your gay
dress-they are such a contrast to the
woman you will see."
"Nonsenser' she said, "nonsensew
"And, Catharine," said the judge, as
the music in the adjoining room became
more brilliant, with a mans voice added
to it, ~'tell Miss Estelle should like to
see her."
His wife gave him a quick glance be-
fore sailing from the study, her velvet
train swishing yard behind her. and
cautiously followed by Catharine Then
the music stopped abruptly, there was a
light movement outside the door, and
twenty years of blondness and beauty
entered the study, good many tinkling
ornaments jingling as she came along.
Papa" she said, "you sent for me?'
"Sweetheart," said the judge, 81
should like you to interrupt your con-
cert for few minutes. There is poor
woman down stairs, the mother of a
man | am trying, and the music, our
cheerfulness"-
"Oh, you sensitive papa, you" was
the merry interruption. "Is that all you
wanted me for?'
THAT is all"
"Then will go back to Mr.. Elwyn-
do you hear him picking out a tune on
the piano? He says he only knows two
tunes; the one is God Save the Queen,
and the other isn't. Did you ever hear
that before? And-papa, he is all alone
in there"
"And | am all alone in here"
She looked at him, and the color
rushed to her face.
"What do you meany she said.
"There's difference"
The judge leaned back in his chair and
regarded her.
"Surely there's a difference he said
slowly; surely there's difference.
/ Come here"
She went around to him, putting her
arms about his neck.
kiss me-" he said, my daughter"
So she placed her rosy face up against
his, the faint perfume exhaled by her
garments, her tinkling beads and ban
giles almost as a parenthesis in the caress.
"Now go back to the lonely young
man." said the judge, gently pushing
her from him. Surely there's differ
ence."
But she kissed him once again and
smoothed his face little before she
gayly left him, and he waited, listening
for the last faint jingle of her ornaments.
Surely there's a difference" he said
softly. He picked up the papers he had
written that evening, made roll of
them and slipped a rubber band over all.
With this baton he tapped upon the
table, thinking of the letter he had yet
to write before going to bed-the letter
regarding his coming nomination for
governor. Surely there was a differ
ence, as Estelle had said, but surely the
father owed his daughter this new honor
despite the difference between his lone
liness and that of her lover.
The governorship- and after that!
He looked up at the hmning of face on
the wall-Websterl The cabinet! His
wife had said it!
Suddenly there came the sweep of the
velvet robe, and his wife entered the
room.
1.-The woman appeals to me, she said.
"She wishes to see you. What you said
to me regarding my dress as l went
down to her maybe rebuked me, for
could not turn her away. Will you see
her? She looks sensible
The judge recalled himself.
Il can do little for her." he responded
with an air of resignation. "But so
long as you have told her you would get
my yes or no suppose must prepare
myself for a bad quarter of an hour.
Let her come up"
His wife left the room. She called
"Catharine," gave low order and passed
by the study door to the room where the
daughter kept the young man from be-
ing lonely.
There was laboring up the stairs,
the touch of garments on the wall, and
in the doorway stood a woman. The
prisoners dock, the witness stand, may
be supposed to hold pale faces, but the
Judge had never before looked upon
face so utterly devoid of color as this
womans, framed by gray hair and dimly
illumined by faded eyes. Perhaps the
regularity of the features, the fine out
line and the immob;lity of the express
sion tended to accentuate the absence of
coloring in the epidermis as much as the
dun colored gown and bonnet the woman