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Show Judgment for the Plaintiff (Copyright, by Dally Story Pub. Co.) jH "As I said before, I don't definitely refuse you," alio said gently. "I Uko you, nnd" "If you llko me, Corn, that's enough for mo I" ho exclaimed, his face lighting light-ing up as ho seized her hand. "No, It Is not enough. To bo qulto frank not to say rude," sho said, allowing al-lowing him to keep her hand, "I nd-mlro nd-mlro you; but, you nro n lawyer n member of a learned profession, and I um sick of mombers of learned professions, pro-fessions, particularly lawyers. Now, don't Interrupt! Dosplto that offense, I I llko you. You nro also too 'correct.' 'cor-rect.' Still, I llko you. If you had, Instead, In-stead, tho virtues of roughness, gruff-ncBB, gruff-ncBB, or anything elso not so hopolcss-ly hopolcss-ly drawing-roomy, as your habitual manners, and had you done something I well, I might grant you leavo to appeal,' ns papa would Bay." "I rather fancied in my vanity that I had dono a llttlo something," returned re-turned Jerrlth very quietly. "Oh, don't start to ton mo!" sho Interrupted. In-terrupted. "Papa has spread your virtues vir-tues and accomplishments nil over tho dining tnblo tlmo and agnln. You're tho youngest counsel ut tho bar, and your 'Principles of tho Common Law' is n great work. But all this is only an aggravation of your offenso. If you had been ono of tho bar's failures and drifted Into penny Journalism, or bo-como bo-como a cowboy, or anything like that, and got a llttlo of your beautiful polish pol-ish off, I I might hnvo loved you. "If you were what you aro not; If you had any other side to your character, char-acter, disposition or temperament, I should llko you much better. But I hnvo lived my life with a lawyer, and 1 was cradled beside nn embryonic lawyer. Papa Is n dear, Robert is tho best of brothers, you nro" tho nicest of drawing-room men; but I am not going to marry you Just at present. I could not bear tho stultifying monotony monot-ony " "Oh, come!" "Lot me finish! Tho stultifying monotony mo-notony of knowing how you would take every Incident of our married life; tho cold, Judicial and common-sense common-sense wtiy you would treat everything. You may laugh; you're a man, but any woman would undorstand mo!" "I'm eorry I'm too stupid to comprehend," com-prehend," he Bald, softly. "Yet I bo-llovo bo-llovo I do comprehend In ono particular, particu-lar, and I would suggest that no man in tho world Is carved in solid mahogany, mahog-any, an you seem to think; thero is always al-ways ii spot of veneer somewhere about him and under tho veneer are flaws of potential possibilities for good or 111. I lovo my profession, nnd becauso be-causo t lovo it I havo risen to some helghtti la It; I lovo you ten thousand times more, nnd I should rise to greater great-er heights for you." "I wlsli I could remove tho spot of veneer iti your caso," sho said, suddenly sud-denly turning to him. "Perhaps you'd flnd what lay behind wns common deal," ho said, smiling into her eyes. "Or oak!" sho returned quickly. 'But I must go! Ploase take mo back to Aunt Clara. I will reserve Judgment Judg-ment In tho case, Mr. Jerrlth; I must consider your locus standi, and you may make an application to mo in chambent at somo future dato." "I submit to your honor," ho replied, re-plied, gravoly, "that tho affidavits I havo filed in my suit, proving that 1 lovo you, clearly establish my locus standi." "Tho court ndJournB, Mr, Jerrlth, and grants itself nn injunction restraining re-straining you from mentioning love." "An interim injunction, Miss Ken-drfck?" Ken-drfck?" ho said, bowing over her hand. "By tho way, cbro, havo you seen or heard nnythlng of Jerrlth lately?" Sho stopped with tho door-knob In her hand, and looked back across tho room townrds whore her fnther sat In tho glow of n shaded floor lamp. "l'vo heard that he's touring, father. Why?" "Oh, nothing, only 1 wondered why wo hod seen nothing of him. I thought. " "It in hardly llkoly ho would look for us In n llttlo desertod placo like this, Is It?" From tho first sho had oppose-l tho Judgo's Idea of spending tho vacation nwny from his country place nnd in a small, somniferous soa-Bldo soa-Bldo village "It was a cruul thing to bring a nlco girl In the bloom of her youth to dlo of email in a place like this. Thank goodness wo shall soon bo In town again!" "To tell you tho truth, I thought wo should have seen a good deal of Jor-rlth," Jor-rlth," returned her fathor mildly, "i let him know wo should bo hero, u ' I thought that would bo sufficient in-vltutlon." in-vltutlon." As Cora crossed tho hall, sho saw tho moonlight, nnd Impulsively she ivcnt and opened tho front door nnd itood on tho stops, bathed In tho silver sil-ver bnams. Sho could not seo tho Ben, but sho could hear tho wave as they rolled up tho beach nnd dropped, drop-ped, heavily on tho shingly beach It Impelled her to put ou a lint and (ro out. although tho hour Was Into Sho paused near n groyno and looked ubout nt tho moonlit scene. Tho only figure on tho foreshore to koep her company was tlmt of a Hshornmn, who'-Wits who'-Wits slowly, rhythmically, balling out a broad beamed, boat on the margin of thu receding sen. Presently, however, out of, tho cor ners of her eyes sho caught sight of a whlto flguro advancing quickly run-nlng run-nlng towards her. It was that of a man, nnd ho enme forward so rapidly HJ that sho soon discovered that ho was .HJ coatlcss and hntlcss, and that his HJ llannols clung drfnkly to him. Ho ran HJ with evident fatigue, and his whole HJ appearance wns so eloquent of ills- tress that almost Involuntarily Bho HJ hurried townrds him, and sho uttered HJ ii cry of surprise when sho wns near enough to hcc his whlto face and roc- HJ ogulzcd Jerrlth. HJ "You!" sho exclaimed, hor heart Bfl rising In alarm. "What has hap- HJ pencd?" HJ "Tho Luscombs!" ho answered, gasping for breath and pointing to tho sen. "Their llttlo yacht out ,HJ on thu rocks there, out boyond tho HJ Point; stovo in, sho Is, and filling, with her propeller gone. Thoy were bringing me round from Falmouth to sco you. HI, there," he cried, running to the fisherman, who was still balling nut his boat. . Cora ran after him, not caring that HJ she lost her hat, SB "It's dangerous work rounding that "HJ Point on tho ebb tldo, mister," said tho fisherman, when Jerrlth repeated HJ his nows. "1 shall havo to eall up somo mates, an' HJ "There's not u minute to lose," cried HJ Jerrlth. "I was half an hour swim- ming to shore. It may be too lato HJ even now." "This boat's no good leaks like a HJ sieve, sho does, an' tho other boats is nil pulled up" HjB "Wo must ball her," cried Jerrlth. "I tell ycr It ain't no good," por-slsted por-slsted the fisherman, angrily. "We'd no ver get thcro In her." "Then we'll sink In tho effort," said Jerrlth, fiercely. "Man, thoro aro three women on board that yacht! Aro you going to be such a coward as to dally nbout, when every moment's precious? Get In with ou, you lnnd lubber!" "But Mr. Jerrlth," protested Cora, whose eyes had caught the glint of light In the boat whore a moonbeam struck tho water In the bottom. -H "Silence, Miss Kcndrick!" cried Jer rlth, turning angrily on her. "Instead of standing there looking picturesque' and backing up this lubber in his cowardice, you should be speeding round the village, calling tho men to get out another boat! Put a will into It man! Shove her! Shove her! She goes. In with, you, now. It we're too late tho country shall ring with your name "as " "Stow it, mister," growled tho fish-erman, fish-erman, tumbling Into the boat. "Ain't .1 comln'?" nnd he picked up a pad-die pad-die .and dug it viciously into tho wn-ter wn-ter qnd sand, whllo Jerrlth shoved off with another. Cora stood spellbound, whlto to the lips with anger, her eyes dilating with nmnzement nt Jerrlth's Insult In ten minutes she wns In tho vil-lago vil-lago and rousing out of their coxy kitchens the fishermen within Irnmo-dlate Irnmo-dlate call. In a fow words she told them the news. '"It's thom'll want saving, miss, in Snm's old tub!" exclaimed ono of the men, as tho party passed her and hurried down to tho beach. Cora fol-lowed fol-lowed hotfoot. Jerrlth's boat was out of sight be- fl fore tho second was got down, and us Cora stood and vainly searched tho distant waters for It, sho began to think of Jerrlth In a different light. Ho was a new Jerrlth, and a revela-,tion revela-,tion to hor a man of action and hot blood. Hor mind went back to tho e vening when he had quietly proposod to her, nnd sho remembered his words about man not being carved in solid mahogany and tho volco of her heart hud a new ring, for sho realized that behind tho sntlnwood veneer of Jor-rlth Jor-rlth of tho drawing-room was a warm-blooded, warm-blooded, masterful man. She was ono of tho first to seo something moving towards tho shore from tho direction of tho Point, and her heart roso painfully' high in hor bosom whllo her strained eyes ills-tlngulshed ills-tlngulshed Its shnpo. Slowly the hlngle object evolved Itself into threo boats, and ns thoy drew nearer sho saw that two Wore-filled with passcn-gors passcn-gors nnd llshormcn, while In tho third boat, which was being towed, sat bH Jorrith nnd Sam tho fisherman, HI steadily, methodically balling. lH Sho did not run with tho llttlo crowd JfoS of cheering villagers as tho boats fflm grounded, but walkod forwnrd thought- Ww fully, and thus, ns Jerrlth's boat fftjS swung round on tho tow-lino and ho nJjJV leaped ashore, they found thcmsolvcs Ax'' sldo by side. "Miss Kendrlck, will you accept my M most humble upology " i'Jr'i "Oh, you wero flno," sho said, "itf half shyly, glancing Into his faco, and 'Jrf$ thon turning away nnd looking at 'ffVl nothing In particular. fi5i "I know tho momonts woro mo-monts mo-monts of llfo-or death, and I could jSfe not hnvo pulled out In tlmo nlono. frt Judgo my position" y' "This Is no tlmo for Judgment," iAW cho answored quickly. "You may ap- iUw$ ply to mo In chnmbors tomorrow, If '&(: you wish." , 'rSSgr "qorn," ho said, snatching at her W$M hand. h9 But sho slipped past him and Joined tho throng around tho' res- i cued. Judgurent for tho plaintiff. "si BBsl , , i r?...iB |