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Common Ground
from his surprise the girl with the camera had disappeared through the back door and handed the apparatus with the incriminating negative to Burke's waiting emissary, who rushed it to the city, a toothsome bit for the sensational newspapers. The judge knew he had been tricked, and hurried back to the city; but still he was helpless, ^^ for to take steps ^B
in him, even though he did not take the trouble to defend himself.
As for Kitty, he had entirely forgotten her in his own troubles. She hardh stool out from the other girls whom he had seni to the counti j His enemy had strui k secretly, and he could nol guess whom he should suspei t.
to forestall the at tack, would be regarded as a conon of guilt.
Tortured w i t h apprehension, he could do nothing
hut wait. And with the n e x t morning the revelation came.
1 1 is h i d d e n enemy had " him. The picture of Lou in his arms was reproduced in three newspapers, with varying comment.
There were demands for a grand jury investigation. for the immediate retirement of the judge, and similar attacks. Before noon the intimation was brought to him that if he would resign the matter would be dropped. Sick at heart, overcome with a sense of his failure, there was no fight left in him. He wrote h i s resignation, and buried himself in his quarters in the slums. For days he saw no
one but the kindly old wife of the janitor, who brought him his meals and stood beside him, insisting that he eat something. His disgrace was common talk in the district, and the faithfulness of the woman alone interested him in life. She believed
year later, a magnifictnt, radiant Kilty, hail mmm into bring.
Nol thai he i on
sciously believed
Kitty had been a party to die plot, but all the good that he had trie 1 to do had turned out so badly that he did not separate any specific cases in his mind. I le was soul -sick. dazed, spiritually benumbed.
But Kitty had not forgotten her hero. She was a little surprised that her Galahad had not come unscathed through the ordeal. When the word came from the judge's successor that the girls at the farm were free to go w h e r e they pleased — their probation ended as the ring swiftly rewarded its allies— she brought little Bobby back to the city and set out with determination to enlist aid for the wronged man. Xow her tempestuous love for her friend was secondary to a desire to help him. She remembered what Lou had said about his engagement to Doris Mordant, and bravely went to tell her rival what she knew. Doris was about to send her away, but Mordant learned of the call and had (Continued on page 154)