They were forgotten, save once a year, upon Decoration Day, when Judge Bradley made eloquent tribute above their graves.

Upon such times Judge Bradley always shed tears, and always alluded to the tears with pride.

Indeed, his lachrymal ability was something of which he had much right to be proud, it being well known in the legal profession that one's fees are in direct proportion to his ability to weep.

Judge Bradley could always weep at the right time before a Jury, and this facility won him many a case.

Through no idle whim had public sentiment, even after the incident of the substitute, confirmed him in his position as the leading lawyer of Bloomsbury.
It was therefore predetermined that Edward Franklin should go into the office of Judge Bradley to begin his law studies, after he had decided that the profession of the law was the one likely to offer him the best career.