Williams news., 1915-05-20
CHAPTER IV-contlnued.

CHAPTER IV-contlnued.
 But she would not be denied. She thrust it upon him and once ms eyes had fallen up it, they clung there' though evidently against his will. An' she knew that Reuther's exquisite countenance would plead for 1tseI! God seldom grants to such beauty so lovely spirit. If the features tnem- selves failed to appeal, certainly he must feel the charm of an expression which had already netted so many | hearts. Breathlessly she watched him, and, as she watched, she noted the heavy lines carved in his face by thought aud possibly by sorrow, slowly relsx and his eyes fill with a wistful tenderness. Parents must learn to endure bit terness. I have not been exempt my self from such. Your child will not die. You have years of mutual com panionship before you, while have nothing. And now let us end this in- terview, SC, painful to us both. You have said~-"
 NO, Su0 UIOh0 III WAsh ooNS-- vehemence. all the more startling from the restraint in which she had held herself up to this moment, T have not said-I have not begun to say what seethes like consuming fire In my breast [ spoke of a miracle-w1ll you not listen, judge? am not wild; am not unconscious of presumption. I am only in earnest, in deadly ear nest ,A miracle is possible. The gulf between these two may yet be spanned. I see a way"
 What change was this to which she had suddenly become witness? The face which had not lost all it's underly- ing benignancy even when it looked its coldest, had now become settled and hard. His manner was absolutely repellent as he broke in with the quick disclaimer:
 But there is no way. What mir xcle could ever make your daughter, lovely as, she undoubtedly is, a fitting match for my son! None, madam, ab- solutely none. Such an alliance would be monstrous; unnatural"
 'Why?" The word came cut boldly Because her father died the death
 2. r|..-g4Hl. q of a criminal?"
 The answer was equally blunt.
 ''Yes; a criminal over whose tria his father presided as judge"
 Quick as flash, however, came thu retort.
 "A judge, however, who showed hin every consideration possible. I wa told at the time and I have been as sured by many since that you wer more than just to him in your rulings Judge Ostrander"-he had taken step toward the hall door; but h paused at this utterance of his name "answer me this one question. Wh did you do this? You must have hate him deep1y-your feeling for MT. Etl eridge was well known Then wh such magnanimity toward the ma who stood on trial for killing him?"
 Unaccustomed to be questione though living in an atmosphere of col tfnual yes and no, he stared at tt yelled features of one who so dared, if he found it hard to excuse such pr sumption. But he answered her ne ertheless, and with decided emphasi
 Possibly because his victim Wi my friend and lifelong companion. judge fears his own prejudices."
 Possibly; but you had another re son, judge; a reason which justdh you in your own eyes at the time al which justifies you in mine now a always. Am I not right? This is courtroom; the case is one of the pas 1t can never be reopened; the pr pner is dead. Answer me, then, as o sorrowing mortal replies to anoth hadn't you another reason?"
 The judge, panoplied though he W or thought he was, against all conce able attack, winced at this repetit of a question he had hoped to igno and in his anxiety to hide this invol tary betrayal of weakness allowed anger to have full vent, as he cried in no measured terms:
 What is the meaning of all th What are you after? Why are raking up these bygones, which Q make the present condition of aft darker and more hopeless? Oli Ostrander, under no circumstan and by means of no sophistr1es,
 ever marry the daughter of John
 vilIe I should think you would
 that for yourself"
 But if John should be proved
 have suffered wrongfully? If he sht
 be shown to have been innocent? 7
 His rebuke was quick, instant.
 A force and earnestness which reca
 tha ,ourtroom ha reDIfed: