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 Because ever since Eden other brides have worn its blossom Her tone was demure. Miss Rowly looked sharply at her, but her sharpness. sott-i ened of into a smile.
 "Hmw she said, and 'wss silent for a while. Stephen seized the opport- unity to put her own case: "Auntie dear, you must forgive me- You really must. for my heart IS set on this. I assure you l am not doing 1t merely to please myself. nave thought over the whole matter. Over, and over, and over again; but always to the same result. Father has always wished me to be in position "a posi. tion of knowledge and experience-tc manage Normanstand If l Snouiq ever succeed him. From the earliest time l can remember ne mas aiways NY. this before me. and though of course I did not at first understand what 1t meant. I have seemed in the last Few years to know better. Accordingly I learned all sorts of things under his care, and sometimes even without his help. have studied the estate map, and I have been over the estate books and read some of the leases and all such matters which they deal with in the estate office. This only told me of the bones of the thing. wanted to know more of our people; and so made a point of going now and again to each house that we own. Of seeing the people and talking with them fami- liarly; as familiarly as they would let me, and indeed so far as was possible considering my position. For, Auntie dear, I soon began to learn--to learn in way there was no mistaking- what my position is. And so want to get to know more of their ordinary lives; the darker as we'll as the lighter AGA tlr tA Aa l can see how my dear daddy has al- ways been a sort of power to help tn hem, and I would like to carry on his work; to carry it further If I may. But must know. My life is so diff ferent from theirs that must know more of their ultimate hopes. more of their controlling fears. And from what I have heard hinted here and there gathered from their conversations. the police court Is the place of allothers associated in their minds with fear. They are not afraid of hospital; indeed they rather look on it as place of rest and luxury. But they fear the gaolw
 She paused for a moment as if in thought; and in the pause her aunt spoke. She had been listening to the young girl with growing interest, and with growing respect too. for she real ised the intense earnestness which lay behind her Wofds ana ner lmmediate purpose. Her voice and manner were both more softened than they had been:
 "But. my dear. surely 1t is mol necessary to go into the Court to know these things. The results of the hearing of each case by the magf- strates become known"
 That is just it, Auntie," she answ- cred quickly. The magistrates them selves have to hear the two sides oi the case before even they can make up their minds. I want to hear both sides too! If people are guilty. want to know the cause of their guilt. II they are innocent, I want to know what the circumstances can be which make. lnrocence look like guilt. n my own daily life may be in the way of just such Judgments: and surely fl is only right that judgment should b' just"
 Again she paused; there rose before her mind that conversation in tn, churchyard when Harold had said that 1t was difficult for women to bs just.
 Miss Rowly reflicted, too. She wa becoming convinced that in principle