Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1902-02-01
JUDGE And JURY.



able and remarkably brave said the
Girl who thought she knew life.
Il believe they are absolutely hap
py and have great self-control,' said
the girl who thought she did not.
Il believe they are an extremely
= ordinary couple who at the bottom
of their hearts do love each other.
and who yet manage TO nave some
very bad days-meaning rows-like
everybody else said the girl who
really did.
They were speaking of Mr.. and Mrs.
Fanshaw known among their ac-
quaintances as the Judge and Jury"
Nobody quite knew why they were
so called-or. rather. nobody remem-
bered. The name had originally been
chance remark made by a witty
young barrister. who had an oddly
Ncleyer trick of knocking off his ac-
quaintances in some little catch
phrase like this one of Judge and
Jury"
shes the jury. you know-really
settles everything: but he imagines 1t
all his own doing, and, in any case. he
= gets the credit of it. We know"
es<sA they had been SO called ever
The judge dearly loved his
but he never told her so. In
= own mind he had agreed that the
fact of his having chosen her from a
world of girls-and in his youth the
Judge had been much sought after
OF having told her, and that more than
zee during his brief engagement. he
love her-and finally having made
his wife-all this was sufficient.
hat necessity for more? So he
ed quietly, undemonstrative on.
din secret his wife was miserable.
She was rather a passionate and
). in some ways. very proud
IN. But she had no children,
above all was she woman to
N not only the mere fact of
" word or a little caress was an
)lute pleasure, but. moreover. she
ed-if that word or caress were
SHAT all her world should see
1 hear 1t. II was species of uncon-
GUS conceit. very common. did one
~ know 1t, to most women. Often
she tell her friends how the judge
ouli almost ignore ner IT. front of
sople. but when he got her alone!
deed, she had laid some quite pas
ate love scene at the judges door.
younger friends looked at her
with great wonder-at her
envy, and the jury, noting
as then happy. She would
bout with a smile OH her lips.
herself almost into the be-
the Judge really had kissed
tears in his eyes after he
4 away for two iays-when,
ruth, the two on meeting
aiken hands. For though
did occasionally. and on
sions. embrace his wife. il
et. as they had then done. be-
lie servants he always treated
n this stranger fashion.
lere was one particle Of truth in
5. Fanshaw's romances.
As have before said. her young
ends envied her contemporaries
niled, and the old people eoftly said.
Poor thing"
And the Judge and Jury went their
ways. She being a clever woman.
ruled him in all but the one point
which would have made her happy.
There came. one very hot summer.
the town this couple lived in that
cad disease-typhoid fever.
~aa-of the earliest to take il
Fanshaw.
the doctor thought II would
hit attack. The Jury herself
anxious, AMI the Judge. as
nothing.
said she to him, when she
i'll a few days. IF | were
die. and you knew it, what
u do?"
re not going to die" said
'ryly.
we're. Dick?" petuiantly.
ILL.,
lagine. my dear. such an
of things. Don't yol
| better go to sleep for
wou.6 you bid me goodbye
you loved me?" the invalid
as worse than either OF them
nd fever gave her a courage
I'D not otherwise have pos
Ik-my dear" the Judge re-
Using from his chair prepar
leaving the room-"you had
snshaw caught hold of her
hand as he turned away.
ny, Dick" she said. in a
sy than her wont was to
''even IL I'm not going to
course I'm not las the
an imnatient gestureD-
you to say You
ok, do-just once"
his cool hand and
EEK against ii.
Id not answer her,
he room.
the doctor looked
8 after the poor
lirium.
was having
18th her hus-
now the
o- dov