The Daisy M.must look out for herself.

His business was to reach Judge Gould's, in Denboro, before Mrs.Bascom and Bennie D.could arrange with that prominent citizen and legal light for the threatened divorce.
That they had started for Judge Gould's he did not doubt for a moment.
"I shall seek the nearest lawyer," Bennie D.had said.

And the judge was the nearest.

They must be going there, or why should they take that road?
Neither did he doubt now that their object was to secure the divorce.

How divorces were secured, or how long it took to get one, Seth did not know.