He found the judge rather curt.
"He's been up here three times in as many months, and I intend to make an example of him." "But why is only he arrested, when every saloon keeper in the neighborhood does the same thing ?" "Now, sir," said the judge, "don't waste any more of my time.

What's the next case ?" A look we have mentioned once or twice came into Peter's face.

He started to leave the court, but encountered at the door one of the policemen whom he was "friends with," according to the children, which meant that they had chatted sometimes in the "angle." "What sort of a man is Dennis Moriarty ?" he asked of him.
"A fine young fellow, supporting his mother and his younger brothers." "Why is Justice Gallagher so down on him ?" The policeman looked about a moment.

"It's politics, sir, and he's had orders." "From whom ?" "That's more than we know.

There was a row last spring in the primary, and we've had orders since then to lay for him." Peter stood and thought for a moment.