The Washington times., 1921-01-26

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tk.V CAN'T tell you how much l
regret this, Phil" he said.
4 charlotte has very strong
convictions, you know, and SO have
/. You can understand, ! am SURF,
how certain articles OF belief might
he necessary TO one person and not
to another" r~EF
Yes" said Phil. 81 can under
stand. We didn't mention the
articles, Wallis" And he turned
his back.
He never knew the pain he IN
flicted. Wallis Plimpton looked at
the rector. who stood talking to MI.
Waring. and for the first time In
his life recoiled from an overture
Something in the faces or both men
warned him away.
Even Everett Constable, as they
went home In the cars together'
was brief with him. and passed no
comments when Mr.. Plimpton re-
covered sufficiently to elaborate on
the justification of their act, ana
upon the extraordinary stand taken
by Phil Goodrich and Mr.. Waring.
They might have told US what
they were going to do
LANGMAID WALKS.
Everett Constable eyed him.
Would IT have made any DINER
ence. Plimptony" he demanded.
. After that they rode in silence,
until they came to certain west
END corner, where they both des-
eended. Little Mr.. Constable's SEN
sations were, II anything, less envl-
able, and he had not Mr., Phmpton's
recuperative powers. He had solo
that night, for a mess OF pottase,
the friendship and respect OF three
generations. And he had fought,
for pay, against his own people.
And lastly. there was Langmaid,
whose feelings almost defy analysis.
He chose to walk through the stu
night the four miles that separated
him from his home. And ne went
back over the years of his life until
he found. in the rubbish of the past.
a forgotten and furnished Jewel.
The discovery panied him. For that
Jewel was tho ideal he had carried
away, as a youth-from the old law
school at the bottom of Hamilton
place. gift from no less man
than the great lawyer and pubic
spirited citizen, Judge Henry Good
rich-Philip Goodrich's grandfather,
whose seated statue marked the en-
trance of the library. He, Nelson
Langmaid, had gone forth from that
school resolved to follow In the
footsteps of that man-but some
how he missed the path.
Somehow the jewel had lost It's
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offer, and q struggle-just one;
= readjustment on the plea that the
world had changed since the days
of Judge Goodrich, whose uncom-
promising figure had begun to fade;
an exciting discovery that he, Mel
son Langmaid, possessed the gift OF
drawing up agreements which had
the faculty of passing magically
through the meshes of the statutes
Affluence had followed. and fame,
and even that high office which the
jurge himself had held, the presi-
dency of the State Bar Association.
In all that time, one remark, which
he had tried to forget, had cut him
to the quick. Bedloe Hubbell had
said on the political platform that
Langmaid got 100000 year for
keeping Eldon Parr out of Jail.
Once he stopped In the street, MS
mind suddenly going back to the
action of the financier at the vestry
meeting.
"Confound him." he said aloud;
''he has been a fool for once 1 told
him not to do it," ~
He stood at last in the ample YES
tibule of his house, singing out
his latchkey, when suddenly the
door opened, and his daughter,
Helen. appeared.
"Oh, dad" she cried. why are
you so late? I've been watching
for you. know you've let Mr..
Holder stay"
She gazed at him with widcned
eyes. .-..-
Don't tell me that you've made
him resign. i can't won't be-
heve it"
He isn't going to resign. Helen"
Langmaid replied in an odd voice.
-He-he refused to-"
CHAPTER Xxx.
The Church of st. Johns, after
a peaceful existence of so many
years. had suddenly become the
stage on which rapid and bewilder-