Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-01-30

speech on the typewriter. He always had his own stenographer take his speeches, as he liked to see them in cold type just as he made them. It helped i him in self-criticism.
 They seemed to like the speech, Miss Wilson" he said, laughing in 8 self satisfied way. What did you think of it?"
 The girl turned her serious face and clear gray eyes toward him, and after a moments hesitation, raplied: l "I think it was very clever and very eloquent and a very convincing speech, MT. Melbourne, but I would 1 have had my right hand cut off before would have delivered it" ,. l Melbourne paused in the removal of his gloves, and looked trifie puzzled and amused. "Why?" he asked. Surely your clear head has not become tangled by these ranters'' 4
 "No, it isn't that" she replied, "and cannot argue it with you, of course. But I was thinking of those poor settlers who have gone out into that wilderness and of all the toll and hardships they have gone through, and now Uncle Sam is to tell them as he told the Indians, Move on' And they must go out and find other bad lands that nobody else wants and start over again and starve and suffer and end&re. And they are so much older now and it means the same hard life for the younger generation and the one following that I fear. And the women and children have suffered so much"
 Her eyes had grown softer and softer as she progressed and they were bright with tears as she stopped, her voice trailing off into something between whisper and a sob at the last. Mel bourne's face was serious and the amused expression had been swallowed up by the puzzled.
 What do you know about these peo- pie, Miss wilson?" he asked.
 TT lived among them once," she said as she turned to the machine and began to rattle the keys.
 Melbourne passed into. his inner office, sat down at his desk and went to work at his papers. His face was still serious and every now and then look of an- noyance would steal into it.
 The months sped by. The Bracken bill became law and was attacked by an attorney representing the settlers. The irrigation corporation retained Robert Melbourne as chief counsel, as' sisted by the ablest lawyers in the coun- try. The matter was rushed into the supreme court to ascertain the con- stitutionality of the provisions of the law that deprived the settlers of their claim to the land they held. Melbourne took a great interest in the case, as it promised to be a famous one, and victory would give him wide prestige. He worked hard and diligently on the brief and ransacked the law books night and day for precedents. His stenog- rapher wrote and rewrote the various paragraphs over and over again. Once in awhile as he glanced at her grave face and calm eyes ddhbt would possess his mind, but he would dismiss it and plunge into the work harder than ever.
 At last the brief was finished and Mel bourne asked Miss Wilson to read it to him. It was habit of his to have her do this while he sat with closed eyes and tried to pick vulnerable point Ha could not find the suggestion of flaw in this one.
 Well, Miss Wilson," he said, q call that work of art. can't see how they can get away from those proposi- tions, do you?" :,
 "No sir, do not" she replied. land it certainly is work of art. But I would rather that my brother, or my father, were in their graves than that they should do that thing-even with all the fame it would bring them"
 He looked at her intently for a mo- ment, then rose abruptly and went out, saying:
 "I am going out of town for few days -naeybe two weeks. Put the brief in the safe. I will be back in time to file it. us
 It was fully two weeks before he re- turned. When he did he asked Miss Wilson to bring him the brief in the Bracken case. It was in the late fall and a fire was burning in the open grate. He glanced the brief through and tossed 1t into the blaze.
 The girl started and looked at him iii surprise.
 'I have been out there among those people," he said, regarding her intently 
 And I have resigned as counsel in this case. have learned many things I never dreamed of in the past two weeks Among them that I need conscience and heart to balance what few brains Providence gave me. And have learned that that conscience and that heart which need is personifed in you I need you, Miss Wilson-Clara will you help me place my life and my motives on a higher plane?"
 The world was scarcely less surprised at Robert Melbourne's resignation from the Bracken law case than at his mar riage to his stenographer. But Mel. bourne had many other surprises in store for the world.
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