Judge Elbridge

Bodney knew he would do, and in a broken voice said that he wanted to be left alone. At the time when the Judge left the drawing room with Bodney, Bradley was bidding the famil

clang of the gong had prevented his getting any money. That, however, was a minor consideration. He needed money, it was true; he had not expected much, but even a little would have helped him greatly. A lower order of m

asked, as Bodney st

down. He took up a newspaper and fanned himsel

And

you are. I don't believe that any human being could have the influence over me

't y

dea of a personal devil, but I believe in one now. He is

of men. What did I do? Convinced him that his own son is a robber. Was that right? Perhaps. Why should such a man have been a judge? What wrongs may not his shortsightedness have caused him to commit? We can't tell. He may have committed a thousand unconscious crimes. But an unconscious crime may be just as bad as a co

nius; they believed that I was to astonish the world, and I believed it. I bent myself to study, but one day the bubble burst and I felt then that nothing amounted to anything-that all was a fraud. The world is the enemy of every man. Every man is the natural enemy of every other man. Evil has always triumphed and always will. The churches meet to reform their creeds. After a while they must revise out God-anot

answered: "No, I am not. It was marked out for us, and I don't suppos

imalism-to make of me an eternal nothi

ve prevented

pass away. Be cheerful, now. We haven't any money as a reward of our enterprise and art

d. I will lie

elf out, George. I'l

up. He went to the window and stood to cool his face in the fresh air. He looked back at the bed. Goyle was still sleeping, breathing gently. The horror of the night

at time is

Bodney stood with his elbow resting on the marble top of the "bureau," his face yellow and haggard. Glancing down into the half closed drawer, he saw the razor and shuddered at the sight of it. With his left hand he felt of his right arm, gripping it from shoulder down to wrist a

th you," he said, putting hi

ldn't," Bodney

up. Now you are beginning to look like yourself. Why, nothing so very bad has been done. We have enacted a little drama, that's all. Such things, or things on a par with them, are enact

colding a housemaid for disturbing his papers. T

reakfast. Well, sir, I never saw anything like it in my life. I can't put a thing

dache and didn't sleep very well.

didn't get that preacher to laughing at me last night-laughing at me right here in my own hou

ridge, a preacher means quite as lit

d it appeared to brighten him. He dressed himself hastily, turning occasionally to heed a remark made by Goyle or the old man,