Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1904-11-07
he Substitute
Blu WILL N. HARDEN.
Dor Of "AbneT DsRiel.' The Land Of
the Changing Sun" The North
Walk NuStsru." Etc.
bright. 1905. bp Harper & Brothers
CHAPTER I.

speeches had been mace on
both sides OF the case, and the
attorney for the state had
severe and eloquent in urging
tiOn. The jury had remained in
ment all the morning and at last !
iled in and rendered their YER |
David Buckley, the prisoner at |
ar, was found guilty of having
krately and in the night stolen a
BIZ cotton from a neighbours barn,
ed It as his own and taken it TO
et the next day.
was a short, thickset man near
ge Of sixty-gray, stiff haired ana
faced, and Just now more an
t was thought, at certain neigh
who had testified against him
chagrined at the verdict Of the
He glanced at his wife, who
.gainst the railing behind him, and
stared steadily at the floor till
heriff came and led him back to
er in the afternoon he was
yht back to receive his sentence.
Judge, a tall, powerful man, dark
air and eye and as brown as a
lard, was about to order him to
up when Hiram Hillyer, a well
o cotton and grain merchant of
town, rose and begged permission
'eak to the judge in private before
prisoner was sentenced.
-ell. l reckon we've got time, Mr..
Ter," the judge said pleasantly.
is anything in Buckley's favor I'd
to hear II. I've been on the bench
n years, and 1 don't think l ever
a man before me that was painted
lack by his neighbors."
hiking his way through the cluster
lawyers and students Of the law
nd the stove to one of the vacant
rooms, the merchant waited for
Judge TO join him, and when he
e Hillyer, nervously pulling at his
It. gray beard, faced him, an eager
in his mild blue eyes.
I'm 'afeard it amt nothin' in the
mans favor, Judge Moore" he fal
ID. The truth is, I'm a-thinkin
ut his son. Judge. eff thar eve
a finer, more honest an uprigh
than George Buckley, hain't new
un across i'm"
BIZ. you can't tell me anything about
Rrge." said Judge Moore. He and
re friends. He voted for me and
led for me in the Upper Tenth dis
a, All. so he sent you to me, did
Well, what does George want
as glad he wasn't in court to heal
that stuff against his daddy
You see, we thought-me'n' Georg
h thought that maybe you mough
nstice mought be carried out by i'm
sim pretty heavy fine, an -
Old Buckley isn't able to pay
t" broke in the judge. eve mad
luiries. and if his little farm is sol
will leave his old wife without an
cans Of making a support. No, tn
s up with him"
But Georges been savin' money Il
last five years." said Hillyer an,
1sly. I've got it borrowed from i
regular rates. i can lay my han'
the money at a moments motto
% he can raise a reasonable amou
! right"
Iudge Moore frowned, thrust
,nds into the pockets of his trouse
ld turned to a window which look
If on the courtyard, where a II
lers lay on the grass near the hit
g rack.
I'm not going to be the medl'
trough which deserving innocent p
g suffer for the guilty" he s.
rmly. I've thought it all over.
-as afraid George might ask this
IS no go. I've made up my mind
hat score
ooh. Judge. don't say that! plea'
Iillyer. The boy simply can't D
You see. Judge Moore, sine
mex i'm an sent i'm off to school
peen sorter away from his home
he felIer's got as much feelin' as 8
BODY else. Then when he got thro
koIlege an l give i'm a place IN
business he's stood with the best Il
n the town. an 1t would go hard '
into have his own daddy at the
mines"
81 know all that, Mr.. Hillyer.
thought Of it twenty times during
rial I hardly slept last night u,
10 make up my mind what to q
case the jury didn't recommend b
ey 10 mercy. Well, they came d
on i'm like a load Of bricks. an I'm
going to let George suffer Tor
WHY. the old rascal can't be cure
his dishonesty. Didn't you hear
Bradley said about his constantly
ing from his neighbors, many OF "
never made any charge against MN
# respect for Mrs. Buckley and Gee
No. sir; his son. who is my friend,
not sacrifice his savings for MIN.
Then I'll pay 1t, judge; you
/ am able"
You shan't do that, either san
Judge firmly. Even II Ia cohse'
iet as old a man as you De OF
pocket for such hopeless repro
George would find it out ana lnsi
repaying you in the long run NO
wears in the mines Will 90 Ine