Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1913-10-10

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like blow, ChesterS efforts to COM
| fort her. She sat, an alien in an inhos-
pitable land, hedged about by a wall
of displeasure at some formless insult.
and at friends without chivalry, The
| Judge began stating his decision, Civ
/ ing the argument for the one side and
then for the other, as Judges do.
The evidence tends to prove" said
he, that Roberta Lee Frayn has q
malign fascination over her pupils
the larger boys especially: that she
has lured them into personal attend
ance upon her rather than to study;
that she has melted young men to
duels, brawls, breaches of the peace,
/ and"
| / could See that she thought the
phrase st tends to prove" an express
sion Of his belief in the charges; and
as he went on her face famed red
once more, and then went white as
/ snow. She stepped back from the Ia
| BILE as If to clear for action, one little
hand lifted, the other In the folds of
| her dress.
4 subj" she cried, in passion of In
| dignation which was splendid and ter
rible. '"This must stop! II nah false
/ friends lack the. chivalry to protect
/ me and nah good name, Ah'll defend
mahself, subj"
Chester half rose, as If to throw him
self into the hopeless contest
"The defendant does not under
stand" said the judge. "The defend
ant will resume her seat! The evil
dence tends to prove that
| But the decision was never finished;
| for the girl drew a short small pistol
and aimed at him. We were frozen in
horror Judge Worthington looked ul1-
waveringly into the mazzle.
"Roberta!" said he
then saw a rush by Captain Win
| field to strike her arm; the pistol
roared out in the court room like
cannon; and as Miss Frayn sank back
into my mothers arms, Judge Worth
ington stepped down with a rent across
his shoulder, from which he withdrew
| his fingers stained red. From under
| the table, where irresistible force had
thrown me, saw him take an unre-
sisting hand, and heard him whisper
| to her.
"Darling!" said he. ''You don't I'M
derstand! Let me explain, sweetheart.
and then If you want the pistol back,
| I'll give it to you, loaded!"
Then he stood up and took COM
mand.
"The baiIiff," said he will remove
the defendant and Mrs. Boggs to my
! chambers. shall inv estigate this in
camera. am not hurt, gentlemen.
more than pins prick, and am able
Ito go ON and take SUCH measures as
are necessary to protect the court.
Remain here until resume the trial"
81 can tell you," said Middlekauff,
| fswe'll crawl out where we went in.
Nobody can stand agFin her at clus
range like that"
| Captain Winf1eld's face bore puz-
zled and mysterious smile as he
emerged from the chambers.
''You can't subdue these southern
ers, Oc," said he.
"The verdict Of history" said /, lis
otherwise"
'We just reconstru cted and alb
sorbed 'em,' said he. II was there, an
| ] know. The Judge thinks we've got
to handle this Frayn invasion the
same way"
''I fail to get your meaning" said /.
"The way to absorb this rebel host"
said the captain, sis I'd marry it. It's
| the only way to ground her wire and
demagnetize her. / can't undertake
/ the job, for reasons known to all
You're sort Of RESPONSE bic for her de-
| yastatin' course, an think it'll cipher
| itself down to Oscar Boggs as
bridegroom for the good Of Teal Lake
| Township and the welfare Of the
Boggs School"
| MY emotions were tumultuous. No
| such marriage could be forced on me,
of course; but duty, duty!
"On the main point said the cap
tain, '.the court had its mind made up
when / came out. This marryin' has
got to be did Who's to do it is what
they're figgerin' on!"
Captain Winfield said I, "if the
public interests require it, II my con-
| stituents demand it, / will make the
sacrifice!
/ "Oc," said the captain, in properly
serious manner, though some Uttered,
you're a Twin marvel! I'll go back
and report"
| Almost Immediately as my heart
heats stif1ed me, they emerged from
| the chamber. My mother was in tears,
Worthington bore Mis- is Frayn on his
arm, and both looked exaltedly happy.
Roberta. as 1 called her in my
thoughts. shrank back Ibashfully, more
beautiful than had ever seen her. 1t
was a great, momentous hour Tor me.
| / felt that had settled, the case.
/ Il shall ask the plaintiff" said the
Judge, "to dismiss this easel"
ION what grounds T. Intercepted
Beasley sharply.
Don't tell, F'orceythe!" said Rob
erta. hiding her face on the judges
arm as ] approached.