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Updated: May 13, 2025
The son came in, said that he was pleased to see me, sat down, opened a pamphlet that looked like a medical journal and began to read. "Mr. Hawes," said the General, "I understand that you have made arrangements to study law with Judge Conkwright. And a most fortunate arrangement, I should think.
When the work of impaneling the jury was begun, old Conkwright was there with his challenges. How shrewd he was, how sharp were his eyes. And when night came the panel was far from complete. "It will take a long time at this rate," I said, as we were leaving the court-room. "I don't care if it takes a thousand years; they sha'n't ring in a stuffed toad on me," replied the ex-judge.
"You shall have your own way, for I know that everything will come out right. Conkwright says so, and he knows. How did you happen to find this place?" The old man laughed.
She was not a very good-natured woman; she said that the State and the rest of us ought to be ashamed of ourselves for having robbed her of her husband, and she declared that if she ever got money enough she would sue old Conkwright and the sheriff and everybody else. I was glad enough to quit that wretched and depressing scene; and in the cool of the evening I strolled about the town.
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