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THE JUDGE EXTENDS HIS CREDIT.
That afternoon Judge Price walked out to Belle Plain.

Solomon Mahaffy had known that this was a civility Betty Malroy could by no means escape.

He had been conscious of the judge's purpose from the moment it existed in the germ state, and he had striven to divert him, but his striving had been in vain, for though the judge valued Mr.Mahaffy because of certain sterling qualities which he professed to discern beneath the hard crust that made up the external man, he was not disposed to accept him as his mentor in nice matters of taste and gentlemanly feeling.

He owed it to himself personally to tender his sympathy.