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/ Thankful
''I would get Elizabeth to make clean
opy, Thank; that is quite the most dis.
| equitable letter / ever saw said Dud.
ey, 81 am going out now to order ban
luet; day after tomorrow is Thanksgiv-
/ ng and they will come, and we II ell the
vassail bowl"
They arrived. Aileen, after being hug
red and kissed quite as much az Eliza
,eth, by all the Redfslds. was permitted
go home with Mrs. Soule, who was at
he Redfeld' to receive the wanderers.
| Gwen tell our adventures when we are
.sted and clean, said Elizabeth. "Tom
must be put to bad at once, Dudley; and
.et Dr. North Immediately. He is to stay
sere, where l can take care of him. Put
him in my room, Dudley; I II camp with
Thank" Olinker wns suffering severely
With his wound, and was put to bed at
Ince, as Elizabeth directed.
! At dinner, where they all assembled, all
i took turns in relating their adventures,
ind the tales we're indeed exciting. AS
soon as dinner was concluded, Elizabeth
and Dudley retired upstairs with Tom .
dinner, and spent tho evening in anus
ing the invalid.
"What state you are all ini" said
Dudley. Elizabeth comes with her dress
IN rags. I wish could have seen you
crawl through that glass door. How did
tou do it, my soul'''
81 don't know; I just smashed the
glass with the soap-dish, and the next
hing I realized, I was rushing at Tom,
who was white as ghost, with the blood
tripping down his coat, and Aileen-"
"What did she dot" with lively inter
est
"1 am afraid she let Stanley kiss her.
What do you think, Toni"
"I think she would have been extremely
angrateful and prudjsh if she hadn It, ="
said shat gentleman, with conviction.
"she might have been satisfied with
sxcla pninG Ny preservsr!' and falling
upon her knces. They both look like
blessed ghosts new.
| And enc poor ghost was Laacelot.
"And one was Guinevere
"Guinevere was a married woman, 4"
,aid Elizabeth.
so is Mrs. Soule, l think Stan is an
awful mutf. I should make love to her. I"
"W hat shocking morals, Dudley! that
| because left you. You will never grow
up great and good man like George
Washington unless I stay at home and
overlook your education. !"
"You will have heavy contract, my
1earest," said Tom. "You must 60 to
sed md get some resv now; kiss me.
Goodnight, my darling, my life, my
.oul -
| "One kiss; another; oh; adieu!' You
will have a soul-ha1rowing separation of
line or ten hours said Dudley, impa-
iently.
Never mind, old fellow; we shall have
our reward when you are in love, said
Tom.
"' From battle, murder and sudden
Heath, good Lord deliver us, ~ returned
Dudley ri may fall victim, yet was
Samson so tempted, and he had an excel
lent strength; yet was Solomon so seduc-
I'd, and he had very good witt
Tho next two weeks flew rapidly. The
rial of The State against Soule came up.
The crowd was not great this time, but
here were more than enough spectators,
Aileen thought.
She sat near Gerald, as did his mother,
Stanley saw with keen pleasure that
| Yrs. Soule looked quite as pathetic as he
wished, without meaning it, which pleased
him more.
The indictment of Gerald Soule for
murder in the first degree was read. The
rial proceeded in all its tedious length;
Me lawyers fought inch by inch. Aileen
Fas amazed at the care, the study, the
research that Stanleys work showed he
had put upon the case: he seemed armed
1t all points; he defeated the State IN
several important points; these small vic
tories did not make him forget his vigil
lnce, but served rather to increase it, II
hat was possible.
There were not many witnesses to be
Examined, 50 at the end of the first day
The State rested.
After night of alternate hope and
fear, they came to the courtroom in the
morning. Aileen was dressed simply in a
lark brown street suit and plain hat.
She wore no jewelry except her watch
which was rather a plain one. Mrs.
Soule was in black, which she always
wore. There was much sympathy express
ID for Aileen. She tried to show no feel
ing, but her great gray eyes glowed and
hone somberly with her suppressed feel
ing.
! The case went as usual in such matters
until afternoon, wher Stanley produced
.wo witnesses; one was plain, honest
hips carpenter, who testified that while