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The Girl at the Halfway House

CHAPTER VI
19/20

I was just twenty-two years old when I was married, an' I had just one hundred dollars to my name.

I sent back to Vermont for my sweetheart, an' she came out, an' we were married right here.

I couldn't afford to go back after her, so she came out to me.

An' I reckon," added he, with a sense of deep satisfaction, "that she hasn't never regretted it." "Well, I don't see how love and law can go together," said Franklin sagely.
"They don't," said the judge tersely.

"When you get so that you see a girl's face a-settin' on the page of your law book in front of you, the best thing you can do is to go marry the girl as quick as the Lord'll let you.


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