Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1906-05-09

"Oh, please don't quote law books
at me. Put it in English-woman-
English, if you can"
Il will The special act of the assem-
bly, is void; therefore there was no le-
gal election, and, by consequence, there
is no judge and no receiver"
Miss Van Brock was>silent for a re-
Elective minute. Then she said:
lon second thought, perhaps, you
would better tell me what the consti-
tuition says, Mr.. David. Possibly
| could grasp it,
'lt is in the section on elections.
1t says: All circuit or district judges,
and all special judges, shall be elected
by the qualified voters of the respec-
tive circuits or districts in which they
are to hold their court kiowa coun-
~ was cut out of Judge Whitcombs
circuit and placed in Judge MacFar-
lanes for electoral purposes only. In
all other respects it remains part Of
Judge WhitcOmb's circuit, and will so
continue until Whitcomb's term ex-
pires. Without the vote of Kiowa
MacFarlane could not have been elect
ed; with it he was Illegally elected
or, to put it the other way about, he
was not elected at all. Since he is not
lawfully a judge, his acts are void,
among them this appointment of Major
Guilford as receiver for the Trans
Western"
She was not as enthusiastic as he
thought she ought to be. In the soil
prepared for it by the political conf
dences Of the winter there had grown
| up many-branching tree Of init
macy between these two; frank, sex
less friendship, as Kent would have de-
scribed it, in which a man who was
not very much given to free speech
with any one unburdened himself, and
the woman made him believe that her
quick, apprehending sympathy was the
one thing needful-as women have
| done since the world began
What is the matter with it," he
demanded, when he had given her five
full minutes for reflection.
Il don't know, David she said
gravely. Have l ever thrown cold
water on any of your schemes thus
far?"
mo, indeed You have been the 10y
alest partisan man ever had, think,
the only one l haze to whom | can
talk freely. And l have told you more
than l have all the others put togeth-
err
Il know you have. And it hurts me
to pull back now When you want me
10 push. But 1 can't help it. Do you
believe in a woman's intuition?''
Il suppose l do: all men do, don't
they?"
She was tying little knots in the
fringe of the table scarf, but the
prophetess-eyes. as Penelope called
them, were not following the deft in
tertwinings of the slender fingers.
You mean to set about 'obliterat-
ing Judge MacFarlane forthwith"
she asked.
"Assuredly. l have been whipping
the thing into shape all afternoon:
that is what kept me from dining
with you
at involves some kind of legal pro-
cedure?''
Yes; a rather complicated one
Gould you explain it SO that I could
understand it?''
i think so. In the first place the
question is raised by means of an in
formation or inquiry called a quo
warranto. This is directed to the re-
celver, and is a demand to know by
thus far?''
"Pellucidly,' she said
I'm reply the receiver cites his au-
thOrity, which is the order from judge
MacFarlane; and in our turn we pro-
coed to show that the authority does
not exist-that the judges election
was illegal aud that therefore his acts
are void. Do I make it plain?"
You make it seem as though it
were impossible to fail. And yet
know you Will fall
How do you know it?"
Don't ask me; l couldn't begin to
tell you that. Bat in some spiritual
or mental lookirgglass l can see You
coming to me with the story of that
failure-coming to ask my help
He smiled.
You don't need to be the prophet
ess Penelope says you are to foresee
part OF that. | always come to YOU
with my woes
do you?-oftener than YOU so to
Miss Brentwood"
This time his smile was a mere
Tightening of the lips
You do love to grind me on that
side, don't you?" he said Il and my
affairs are less than nothing to Miss
Brentwood, and no one knows it any
better than you do
But you want to go to her." she
persisted. Il am only the alterna-
tive
He looked her full in the eyes.
Miss Van Brock, what is it you
want me to say? Whatca l say more
than l said moment ago-that you
are the frunct friend man ovor he 4