The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1913-12-04

True bill. I'm awfully sorry"
Thomas Fleming did not speak. The
other man, his lawyer, who had
brought him the unwelcome news, be-
gan TO make the best OF IT,
OF course, it's an annoyance;
but"
Well, yes, 1t is an annoyance"
FLEMING said dryly.
Fleming knocked the ashes from his
cigar He was silent
AS for Hammond, be won't have
leg TO stand on. ! don't know what
ELLIS Il Grew meant by letting him
take the case before the grand jury
lie won't have leg To stand on
What has Hammond got. anyhow?
bates continued. What's he got 10
support his opinion that you pinched
$4,000 from the Hammond estate? HIS
memory OF something somebody saii
u years ago, and an old check. Well.
we won't do n thing To 'emi
His client stood absently locking
and unlocking his desk. Il suppose
. ii Will be In the evening papers he
said.
"Oh, | guess SO, the younger man
said. easily; the findings uf the jury
were reported this morning. Plenty
Of time for the editions
''Then III take an early train
home" Thomas Fleming said, quickly;
my wife" he paused.
Doesn't Mrs. Fleming know about
IT, the lawyer said, surprised.
No" the other man said, gloomily;
Il didn't want her TO worry over it.
But, of course. now she's got to know.
The lawyer behind him, at the Office
door, hesitated.
Fleming, really, IL isn't going TO
amount to anything, or course. know
how you feel about Mrs. Fleming,
but"
The man at the window turned
round. Rather than have her disturb
ed, I'd compromise on 1t. Id pay HIM.
Id"
The lawyer raised mis- eyebrows.
This time, think Hammond is non
est. | guess he really believes he has
"a case but Ellis Il Grew are sharks,
and you'd be encouraging blackmail
TO compromise. Anyway. you couldn
do Ii. Grew volunteered the iniorma-
ton that their man couldn't be bought
on; he meant TO put itsthrough, Grew
said. | told him they'd got the wrong
pig by the ear. | told him that Thom-
las Fleming wasn't the kind OF man
who purchases peace at the cost Oh
principle. They're shysters. and
gave EN- plain talk Now, don't let
Mrs. Fleming take IL TO heart. Tell
her l say 1t will be triumph"
He went of, laughing. Fleming took
|up his black cloth bag and poked
"a np
locked his desk, and found what ne
had been looking fora box Of candy
for his wife. A minute later he was
| in the street AS he moved along with
1.-The surge OF the homeward-bound
crowd. he looked doubtfully into the
flower stores; he wished he had
bought violets for Amy instead or
|candy: he had taken her candy last
saturday. He debated whether ne
had not better get the yiolets, too.
but decided against them, because
Amy was stern with him when he was
|extravagant for her sake. She never
saw extravaganza In any purchase lie
4 made on his own account!
so Fleming. smiling, forbore to add
la bunch of violets 10 his box OF candy.
After all. 1t was his thought that
would bring the delicate. and happy
color up into her face. not the gift
Itself. They were very happy, these
two; perhaps because they were only
1.-TWO. There had been a baby, but II
had only lived long enough To draw
them very close together, and not, as
sometimes happens. to push them
|apayt again; and there were many
friends. Naturally. all the thwarted
maternity OF the woman was added to
1.-THE wife's love; and the paternal In
stinct OF the man (Which is, for the
most part. only amusement and the
sense OF protecting and giving joy
was centered I'm his wife. So II was
mo wonder that, going home on the
train. he WINGED at the thought of tell
ling her that that fool Hammond.
who would not have leg to stand
|on," had prosecuted him criminaliy
|ror misappropriation OF funds as trus-
tee of old Mrs. Hammond's estate. The
TRUST had been closed at her death.
month or two before, and the estate
handed over to her son--this same
Hammond, who thought he remem'
bered" hearing old Smith say, twelve
Years before. that he, Smith. had paid