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nager, "I can't feel right over that Lozcoski! Every time I think of him I have a feeling that, somehow, he hasn't had fair play. There was an awful anger and despair in his look when he saw Murfree, and an awful terror met it. There has been wrong somewhere between those two men. You are sure the Pole had a fair trial?" "Why, I suppose so. Of course he couldn't make himself understood very well without an interpreter, and they had difficulty in finding one--indeed had to give it up, I think--but there seemed no doubt of the matter." "But why couldn't they find an interpreter?" "Well, as I understand it, the man comes from some remote part of the country, and speaks a villainous patois that even an educated person of his own land can scarcely make out. He is very ignorant, and slow to pick up our tongue." "Was Murfree his only accuser?" "Virtually. Still, his written deposition was so clear one could not gainsay it, I have heard." "Written? Why did he not appear in court?" "He was ill at the time, I believe. The fact is, it all happened once when I was east on business, and I really know but little about it, except from hearsay." "Possibly this accounts for Lozcoski's anger against the man. Ignorant as he is, he has no sense of justice, perhaps. But he has suffered cruelly, and I can't help feeling that there is something he resents with all his soul." "How imaginative you are! Don't you think all wrong-doers resent their punishment?" "No, I do not. Many times in my life I have felt that I was not getting the full measure of my dues in that way. In fact, the hardest things in my experience have not come to me in the guise of reproof. I could not connect them with any of my ill doings. They just came out of a clear sky, as it were. Often, when I have been naughtiest, I have seemed to escape with less of pain and trouble than when I have been trying to be exceptionally good." "Perhaps you were not logical enough to trace out cause and effect." "Possibly not." She looked at him reflectively a moment. "I _am_ very illogical, I fear. I once told myself that anything I might want to do to help Littleton would be over your dead body, almost. And, now, I never make a move without looking to you for the encouragement and support that make it perfectly satisfactory. I ought to have read you better from the first!" Dalton rigidly suppressed the tremor of emotion that shook him from head to foot, a
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