Just time for you to get a bite to eat before we start." 3 When we did start, his wife came out in a new black silk dress--for the Stones were quality--and was helped into the back seat, and the judge came out of the house carrying a satchel which when he handed it to me I found to be very heavy.

I should say, as I have often stated, that it weighed about fifty to sixty pounds, and when he shoved it back under the seat before sitting down, it gave as I seemed to remember afterward a sort of muffled jingle.
"The treasures of Golconda, or Goldarnit," said he, "or some of those foreign places.

Hear 'em jingle?
Protect them with your life, Jake." "All right," I said, as glum as you please; for he had left the only vacant place in the carriage back with Mrs.Stone.This was no way to treat me! But I was almost glad when Virginia came out to the carriage wearing a pink silk dress, and looking so fearful to the eyes of her obscure adorer that he could scarcely speak to her--she was so unutterably lovely and angelic-looking.
"How do you do, Teunis!" said she, and paused for some one to help her in.

Judge Stone waited a moment, and gave her a boost at the elbow as she skipped up the step.

I could have bitten myself.