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He took the blame like a gentleman, and now she's found out. She was a sly one, but you can't fool all the people all the time." Charity had not been gone from McNiven's office long before a lawyer's clerk arrived bearing the papers for a divorce on statutory grounds in the case of Dyckman versus Dyckman, Mrs. Charity C. Cheever, co-respondent, Anson Beattie counsel for plaintiff.
That morning saw the conference in McNiven's office, as promised by Beattie. But Kedzie did not appear; she had vanished to some place where she could not be found by anybody except the man who wrote her highly imaginative affidavits for her and the notary public who attested her signature. At the conference with Jim, Kedzie was represented by counsel, also by father.
McNiven would have done better to leave things alone. The sturdy last answer of Charity and the unsportsmanlike sneer of Kedzie's lawyer had inclined the jury her way. McNiven's explanation awoke again the skeptic spirit. Charity descended from her pillory with a feeling that she had said none of the things she had planned to say.
There a local attorney, a friend of McNiven's, met them and vouched for them before the town clerk, who made out the license. He asked Kedzie if she had been married before, and she was so young and pretty and so plainly a girl that he laughed when he asked the question. And for answer Kedzie just laughed, too. He wrote down that she had never been married before.
Her husband, indeed, had taunted her with that intention, and now she had no sooner launched her good name down the slippery ways of divorce than she found Jim Dyckman married and learned that her premature and unwomanly hopes for him were ludicrously thwarted! She went to McNiven's office with a dark life ahead of her.
He insisted on McNiven's calling him to the stand, though McNiven begged him to let ill enough alone.
"I will not answer such an insulting question." "I beg your pardon most humbly. Were you registered as the defendant's wife?" McNiven's voice: "I 'bject. There is no evidence witness even saw the book." The judge: "Objection s'tained." "Well, then, Mrs. Cheever, did you see the defendant write in the book?" "I I perhaps I did " "Perhaps you did.
The next morning McNiven appeared before Justice Palfrey, submitted his motion, and asked for an interlocutory decree. He left his paper with the clerk. During the afternoon Justice Palfrey looked over the referee's report and decided to grant McNiven's motion.
A process-server from McNiven's office went across Broadway to Tessier's office, where Cheever was waiting. He handed the papers to Cheever, who handed them to Tessier, who hastily dictated an answer denying the adultery, the alleged income, and the propriety of the alimony claimed. Tessier and Cheever visited McNiven in his office and served him with this answer.
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