The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1915-04-23
CHAPTER xI-Continued.

TER HI-Continued.
Madam, we have said our say on
this subject. If you have come to see
the matter as | see it, | can but con.
graduate you upon your good sense.
and express the hope that 1t will con-
tinue to prevail. Reuther is worthy
OF the best" he stopped abruptly.
"Reuther is a girl after my own heart"
he gently supplemented, with a glance
toward his papers lying in a bundle at
his elbow. land she shall not suffer
because of this disappointment to her
sirlish hopes. Tell her so with my
love"
1t was a plain dismissal. Mrs. SEQ
VILE o it as such. and quietly left
the room. As she did so she was ap
preached by Reuther. who handed her
a letter which had just been delivered.
II was from Mr.. Black, and read thus:
We have found the rogue and have sue
oeeded in inducing him to leave town.
He's a man In the bill-sticking business
and he owns 10 a grievance against the
person We know.
Deborah's sleep that night was with.
out dreams.
About this time the restless pacing
of the judge in his study at nights
became more frequent and lasted
longer. In vain Reuther played her
most cheerful airs and sang her sweet
est songs, the monotonous tramp kept
up with a regularity nothing could
break.
Hes worried by the big case now
being tried before him." Deborah
would say, when Reuther's eyes grew
wide and misty in her sympathetic
trouble. And there was no improb-
ability in the plea, for it was a case
of much moment. and of great local
interest. A man was on trial for his
life and the circumstances of the case
were such that the feeling called forth
was unusually bitter; so much so, in
deed, that every word uttered by the
counsel and every decision made by
the judge were discussed from one
end Of the county to the other. and in
shelby, if nowhere else, took prece-
dence of all other topics, though it
was a presidential year and party
sympathies ran high.
The more thoughtful spirits were in.
cliued to believe in the innocence of
the prisoner; but the lower elements
Of the town. moved by class prejudice,
we're bitterly ~antagonistic to his cause
and loud for his conviction.
The time Of Judge O~strander's Office
was nearly up, and his future continu-
ance on the bench might very easily
depend upon his attitude at the pres
ent hearing. Yet he, without apparent
recognition of this fact, showed with.
out any hesitancy or possibly without
self-consciousness, the sympathy he
felt for the la at the bar, and ruled
accordingly almost without variation
A week passed, and the community
was all agog, in anticipation Of the
Judges charge in the case just men
toned. 1t was to be given at noon
and Mrs. Scoyille, conscious that he
had not slept an hour the night be
fore (having crept dow more thar
once to listen II his step had ceased)
approached him as he prepared t.
leave for the courtroom and anxiously
asked If he were quite well.
"Oh, yes, I'm we'll" he responded
sharply, looking about for Reuther.
The young girl was standing a LITTLE
behind him, with his gloves in he
hand-a custom she had fallen int
in her desire to have his last look ant
fond good morning.
Come here, child" said he, in
way to make her heart beat; and
as he took the gloves from her hand
he stopped and kissed her on the fore
head-something he had never don
before. Let me see you smile" SAT-
he. IT'S a memory | like to take Wit
me into the courtroom"
But when in her pure delight at hi
caress and the fsiherly feeling whicI
gave a tremor to his simple request
she lifted her face with that angel
look of hers which was far sweete
and far more moving than any smile
he turned away abruptly, as thong
he had peer more hurt than comfor
cd. and strobe out of the house will
cut another word.