Tom took Pet home early and I hope
they walked in the moonlight for hours. Tom is the kind of man that any
pretty girl who is loving enough in the moonlight could comfort for
anything. I'm not at all worried about him, but--
The hour I sat on my front steps and talked to Judge Wade must have
brought gray hairs to my head if it was daylight and I could see them.
Ruth Chester had said good-by with the loveliest haunted look in her
great dark eyes and I had felt as if I had killed something that was
alive and that I hadn't killed it enough. Doctor John had been called
from his coffee to a patient and had gone with just a friendly word of
good night, and the others had at last left the judge and me alone--also
in the moonlight, which I wished in my heart somebody would put out.
They say among the lawyers that it is a good thing that Benton Wade is
on the bench, for it is no use to try a case against him when he has the
handling of a jury. He just looks them in the face and tells them how to
vote. To-night he looked me in the face and told me how to marry, and
I'm not sure yet that I won't do as he says. Of course I'm in love with
Alfred, but if he wants me he had better get me away quick before the
judge makes all his arrangements.
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