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She
felt
that
her
return
would
be
likely
to
precipitate
a
collision
with
her
father
,
but
she
could
not
help
that
.
The
position
of
Mrs.
Cowperwood
was
most
anomalous
.
She
had
to
go
through
the
formality
of
seeming
affectionate
and
tender
,
even
when
she
knew
that
Frank
did
not
want
her
to
be
.
He
felt
instinctively
now
that
she
knew
of
Aileen
.
He
was
merely
awaiting
the
proper
hour
in
which
to
spread
the
whole
matter
before
her
.
She
put
her
arms
around
him
at
the
door
on
the
fateful
morning
,
in
the
somewhat
formal
manner
into
which
they
had
dropped
these
later
years
,
and
for
a
moment
,
even
though
she
was
keenly
aware
of
his
difficulties
,
she
could
not
kiss
him
.
He
did
not
want
to
kiss
her
,
but
he
did
not
show
it
.
She
did
kiss
him
,
though
,
and
added
:
"
Oh
,
I
do
hope
things
come
out
all
right
.
"
"
You
need
n't
worry
about
that
,
I
think
,
Lillian
,
"
he
replied
,
buoyantly
.
"
I
'll
be
all
right
.
"
He
ran
down
the
steps
and
walked
out
on
Girard
Avenue
to
his
former
car
line
,
where
he
bearded
a
car
.
He
was
thinking
of
Aileen
and
how
keenly
she
was
feeling
for
him
,
and
what
a
mockery
his
married
life
now
was
,
and
whether
he
would
face
a
sensible
jury
,
and
so
on
and
so
forth
.
If
he
did
n't
--
if
he
did
n't
--
this
day
was
crucial
!
He
stepped
off
the
car
at
Third
and
Market
and
hurried
to
his
office
.
Steger
was
already
there
.
"
Well
,
Harper
,
"
observed
Cowperwood
,
courageously
,
"
today
's
the
day
.
"
The
Court
of
Quarter
Sessions
,
Part
I
,
where
this
trial
was
to
take
place
,
was
held
in
famous
Independence
Hall
,
at
Sixth
and
Chestnut
Streets
,
which
was
at
this
time
,
as
it
had
been
for
all
of
a
century
before
,
the
center
of
local
executive
and
judicial
life
.
It
was
a
low
two-story
building
of
red
brick
,
with
a
white
wooden
central
tower
of
old
Dutch
and
English
derivation
,
compounded
of
the
square
,
the
circle
,
and
the
octagon
.
The
total
structure
consisted
of
a
central
portion
and
two
T-shaped
wings
lying
to
the
right
and
left
,
whose
small
,
oval-topped
old-fashioned
windows
and
doors
were
set
with
those
many-paned
sashes
so
much
admired
by
those
who
love
what
is
known
as
Colonial
architecture
.
Here
,
and
in
an
addition
known
as
State
House
Row
(
since
torn
down
)
,
which
extended
from
the
rear
of
the
building
toward
Walnut
Street
,
were
located
the
offices
of
the
mayor
,
the
chief
of
police
,
the
city
treasurer
,
the
chambers
of
council
,
and
all
the
other
important
and
executive
offices
of
the
city
,
together
with
the
four
branches
of
Quarter
Sessions
,
which
sat
to
hear
the
growing
docket
of
criminal
cases
.
The
mammoth
city
hall
which
was
subsequently
completed
at
Broad
and
Market
Streets
was
then
building
.
An
attempt
had
been
made
to
improve
the
reasonably
large
courtrooms
by
putting
in
them
raised
platforms
of
dark
walnut
surmounted
by
large
,
dark
walnut
desks
,
behind
which
the
judges
sat
;
but
the
attempt
was
not
very
successful
.
The
desks
,
jury-boxes
,
and
railings
generally
were
made
too
large
,
and
so
the
general
effect
was
one
of
disproportion
.
A
cream-colored
wall
had
been
thought
the
appropriate
thing
to
go
with
black
walnut
furniture
,
but
time
and
dust
had
made
the
combination
dreary
.
There
were
no
pictures
or
ornaments
of
any
kind
,
save
the
stalky
,
over-elaborated
gas-brackets
which
stood
on
his
honor
's
desk
,
and
the
single
swinging
chandelier
suspended
from
the
center
of
the
ceiling
.
Fat
bailiffs
and
court
officers
,
concerned
only
in
holding
their
workless
jobs
,
did
not
add
anything
to
the
spirit
of
the
scene
.
Two
of
them
in
the
particular
court
in
which
this
trial
was
held
contended
hourly
as
to
which
should
hand
the
judge
a
glass
of
water
.
One
preceded
his
honor
like
a
fat
,
stuffy
,
dusty
majordomo
to
and
from
his
dressing-room
.
His
business
was
to
call
loudly
,
when
the
latter
entered
,
"
His
honor
the
Court
,
hats
off
.
Everybody
please
rise
,
"
while
a
second
bailiff
,
standing
at
the
left
of
his
honor
when
he
was
seated
,
and
between
the
jury-box
and
the
witness-chair
,
recited
in
an
absolutely
unintelligible
way
that
beautiful
and
dignified
statement
of
collective
society
's
obligation
to
the
constituent
units
,
which
begins
,
"
Hear
ye
!
hear
ye
!
hear
ye
!
"
and
ends
,
"
All
those
of
you
having
just
cause
for
complaint
draw
near
and
ye
shall
be
heard
.
"
However
,
you
would
have
thought
it
was
of
no
import
here
.
Custom
and
indifference
had
allowed
it
to
sink
to
a
mumble
.
A
third
bailiff
guarded
the
door
of
the
jury-room
;
and
in
addition
to
these
there
were
present
a
court
clerk
--
small
,
pale
,
candle-waxy
,
with
colorless
milk-and-water
eyes
,
and
thin
,
pork-fat-colored
hair
and
beard
,
who
looked
for
all
the
world
like
an
Americanized
and
decidedly
decrepit
Chinese
mandarin
--
and
a
court
stenographer
.
Judge
Wilbur
Payderson
,
a
lean
herring
of
a
man
,
who
had
sat
in
this
case
originally
as
the
examining
judge
when
Cowperwood
had
been
indicted
by
the
grand
jury
,
and
who
had
bound
him
over
for
trial
at
this
term
,
was
a
peculiarly
interesting
type
of
judge
,
as
judges
go
.
He
was
so
meager
and
thin-blooded
that
he
was
arresting
for
those
qualities
alone
.
Technically
,
he
was
learned
in
the
law
;
actually
,
so
far
as
life
was
concerned
,
absolutely
unconscious
of
that
subtle
chemistry
of
things
that
transcends
all
written
law
and
makes
for
the
spirit
and
,
beyond
that
,
the
inutility
of
all
law
,
as
all
wise
judges
know
.
You
could
have
looked
at
his
lean
,
pedantic
body
,
his
frizzled
gray
hair
,
his
fishy
,
blue-gray
eyes
,
without
any
depth
of
speculation
in
them
,
and
his
nicely
modeled
but
unimportant
face
,
and
told
him
that
he
was
without
imagination
;
but
he
would
not
have
believed
you
--
would
have
fined
you
for
contempt
of
court
.
By
the
careful
garnering
of
all
his
little
opportunities
,
the
furbishing
up
of
every
meager
advantage
;
by
listening
slavishly
to
the
voice
of
party
,
and
following
as
nearly
as
he
could
the
behests
of
intrenched
property
,
he
had
reached
his
present
state
.
It
was
not
very
far
along
,
at
that
.
