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drawn. In that event, I think the chances would be very much in Ben’s favor.

I don’t care what names you call it, so long as it ’s done. Will you fix it?

Well, it ’s not exactly a proper proceeding for a Judge of the Circuit Court.

I knew you ’d do it.

Yes, and I think you knew why, did n’t you?

Ever since she ’s died, you ‘ve helped me about everything. Before she died you were just as good to me, and nobody else was.

I am glad you said that, because it clears me from the charge of being what poor Ben calls “one of the crow buzzards,” and I don’t want you to think me that.

No, you ’re not that.

I love you, Jane.

No!

Yes—I ’ve done that for a long while. Don’t you think you could get used to the thought of being my wife?

(gently)

No.