Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-04-26

JudRe 4EODD anu COmpoi tn8m tO Btvo bonds for good behavior"
 It didn't take long to arraign the cul- prits, prove that they had thrown a brickbat through Barbara's window and secure an order of the court re- Quiring them to give considerable bonds for good behavior in future.
 This brought their parents into court and subjected them to good deal of annoyance and trouble. They had to give bonds, and, more troublesome still, they had to control their boys Then again the newspapers published the facts.
 In this way Guilford Duncan multi piled his enemies in Cairo. But he had a deep seated conviction that 1t is worth mans while to make enemies by doing right. In this matter he had done only right. He had invoked the law for the protection of woman, and he had completely accomplished his purpose. He cared nothing for the re- vilings that ensued, but Ober, the man | of brains and character who edited the principal newspaper of the town, took the matter up and made much of it. "This town is barbaric," he wrote in his editorial columns. Tt owes sincere thanks to Mir. Guilford Duncan for teaching 1t that law is supreme; that 1t is to the law we should appeal in every case of wrongdoing. The parents of the young hoodlums who have been bound over to keep the peace have long needed this lesson. This newspaper rejoices that the lesson has been given in so emphatic and conspicuous a man. ner. It congrarulates It's young fellow citizen, Mr. Duncan, upon the quality of his citizenship and upon the results of its activity"
 The entire talk of the little city was of Duncan's activity in haling the hoodlum sons of highly respectable parents before magistrate as a con- sequence of their battle with mig ger" On that subject tongues wag- ged busily pro and con. The friends of the aggrleved parents who had been forced to give bonds for the good be- havior of their i'll regulated offspring indignantly made race issue" of matter which had nothing whatever to do with race prejudice.
 They could not understand how a southerner and an ex-Confederate sol dier could thus have taken the part of "nigger" against respectable white boys" Others who were clamorous for the rights of the negro' rejoiced in Duncan as convert to their doctrine. >
 Both were wrong, of course. Neither in the remotest way recognized the real impulses of his act-namely, the i'm pulse to protect a woman and the i'm pulse of law loving citizen to insiss upon the equal enforcement of the law for the sake of good order in the com munity. But Duncan concerned him. self with none of these things He had done his simple duty as man and as citizen, and he had no care what ever for consequences.
 And yet the consequences were such as vitally affected his entire career in more ways than one. His perform ance brought him for one thing into close acquaintance with certain young woman whom he had scarcely known before and whose destiny it was to influence the entire, future course of his life.
 It was Duncan's habit to sit long and smoke over his final cup of coffee at the evening meal. The other table boarders were accustomed to hurry away as soon as they had swallowed their supper leaving him in sole pos session of the dining room. On the evening of the day on which the events already related occurred he sat as usual smoking, slipping his cof- fee and reading the evening newspa- per. Presently Barbara Verne entered and with manner in which extreme shyness was mingled with a resolute determination to do the duty that lay before her approached young Duncan and held out her hand. As he arose deferentially to greet her, taking her proffered hand in his, the girl said:
 "Pve come to thank you, MT. Dun- can. It was very kind of you-to pro- tect Robert, you know-and me. I'm Barbara Verne. Thank you ever so much"
 As she made her little speech the brave but timid girl looked him in the eyes with the embarrassed front of child set to do duty mingled with the calm composure of a woman who knows and cherishes the dignity of her womanhood.
 Duncan protested that no thanks were due him for doing his simple duty, and after word or two more the girl quilted the room, while Dun can, gallantly lowing, held the door open for her.
 The little interview lasted for less than two minutes. and not an unneces- sary word was spoken on either side, yet 1t seemed to Duncan an event of consequence. as indeed it proved to be.
 Something in the girls voice or man. ner, or something in her eyes, or some thing in her grace of movement, her bearing, her mingled simplicity and dignity. or something in all these com bined, had nightly impressed him. He had seen little of women in any inti- mate way. and, while he honored wo- manhood and deferred to it, as every sound souled man must, he had thought himself quite indifferent to women in their individual personality. But somehow he could not feel so with