The Pickens sentinel. (Pickens, S.C.) 1911-2016, 1916-02-10
CHAPTER xIv-contlnued.

= ! didn't ask to see the ladies'" pro.
Vested Flannagan, turning with stink.
Ing gait toward the door.
II they only had let him go! IL the
Judge IN his new self-confidence had
not been 30 anxious to deepen the eff.
rect and make any future repetition of
the situation impossible!
You understand the lady," he in.
terposed, with the quiet dignity which
was 80 imposing on the bench "she
mas no sympathy with your ideas and
no faith In your conclusions. She be-
iieyes absolutely in my sons limo.
cence."
/ DO you, ma'am?" The man had
turned and was surveying her with the
logged tmpudence of his class. "I'd
like to hear you say 1t, If you don't
mind, ma'am. Perhaps. then, I'll be.
Heve It,"
+. L she ,began, trembling so, that
she failed to reach her feet, although
she made one spasmodic effort to do
80. II belieye--Oh, i feel III! It's
| been too much--l-" her head fell for.
ward and she turned herself quite
away from them oil.
i'You see, she nin't SO eager, ledge.
ag you thought" laughed the bill-pos.
tef, with clumsy bow he evidently
meant to be sarcastic.
''Ohy what have / done!" moaned
Deborah, starting up as though she
would fling herself after the retref ting
figure. now half way down the hall
She saw In the look Of the Judge as
hn OK
the lawyers Whisper as he bounded
past them both to see the fellow out:
useless; Nothing will bride him
now" and finding no support for her
despairing spirit either on earth or. as
ghe thought. I'm heaven, she collapsed
where she sat and fell unnoticed to the
floor, where she lay prone at the feet
OF the equally unconscious figure OF
the judge. fixed in another attack of
his peculiar complaint
And thus1 the lawyer found them
when he rlturned from closing the
gate behind Flanagan
Il cannos{ say anything. cannot do
anything tiiaa have had few words
with Mrs: Seoville. How soon do you
think can aAeak to her?"
Not very soon. Her daughter says
she la quite worn out. Would 1t not
be better to gfye her a rest for tonight,
judge?" {
The Judge. how quite recovered, but
strangely shrunk and wan, showed no
surprise at this request, odd as 1t was,
on the lips Of this honest but some.
what grabbed lawyer, but answered out
, of the fullness Of his own heart and
from the depths of his preoccupation:
MY necessity is greater than her.
The change I sa, in her Is mex.
pilcable. One momen. she was all fire
! and determination, satisfied If divers
Innocence and eager to proclaim it.
The next--but you were with US, You
\ witnessed her hesitation-felt It's
force and what it's effect was upon
the damnable scamp who has our hon.
or--the honor OF tho Ostranders under
4 his tongue. Something must have pro-
3duced this change. What? good
friend, what?"
don't know any more than you
DO. Judge But think you are mis-.
taken about the previous nature OF her
feelings@ i noticed that she WAS not
at peace with herself when she came
into the room"
what's that?" The tone was short,
j and for the first time irritable.
The change, III there was change.
was not 80 sudden as you think, She
{ looked troubled. and as thought, ir.
sresolute re sc when she came into the
4 room. = II si55 Z, ~
s.uNl on don't know, her; you don't
X know what PASSED between lis. She
was all ,rig hit then, butTg to her.
sbiac sSiiie must have recovered by:
s tnss, time. % y Ask her TO come here for d