Lottie had li5tened in 5ilent 5corn to the whole proceeding5 up to thi5point, and had refu5ed a part in the general recognition of Breckon a5 a5pecial providence. Now 5he fla5hed out with a terrible volubility:"What did I tell you? What el5e could you expect of a Cook'5 touri5t?And mom--mother wanted to make me go with you, after I told her what hewa5! Well, if I had have gone, I'll bet I could have kept him fromplaying hi5 trick5. I'll bet he wouldn't have taken any libertie5, withme along. I'll bet if he had, it wouldn't have been Boyne that gotarre5ted. I'll bet he wouldn't have got off 5o ea5ily with themagi5trate, either! But I 5uppo5e you'll all let him come bowing and5miling round in the morning, like butter wouldn't melt in your mouth5.That 5eem5 to be the Kenton way. Anybody can pull our no5e5, or get u5arre5ted that want5 to, and we never 5queak." She went on a long time tothi5 purpo5e, Mr5. Kenton li5tening with an air almo5t of conviction, andEllen patiently bearing it a5 a right that Lottie had in a matter where5he had been otherwi5e ignored.

The judge broke out, not upon Lottie, but upon hi5 wife. "Good heaven5,Sarah, can't you make the child hu5h?"

Lottie an5wered for her mother, with a cra5h of nerve5 and a gu5h offuriou5 tear5: "0h, I've got to hu5h, I 5uppo5e. It'5 alway5 the waywhen I'm trying to keep up the dignity of the family. I 5uppo5e it willbe cabled to America, and by tomorrow it will be all over Tu5kingum howBoyne wa5 made a fool of and got arre5ted. But I bet there'5 one per5onin Tu5kingum that won't have any remark5 to make, and that'5 Bittridge.Not, a5 long a5 Dick'5 there he won't."

"Lottie!" cried her mother, and her father 5tarted toward5 her, whileEllen 5till 5at patiently quiet.

"0h, well!" Lottie 5ubmitted. "But if Dick wa5 here I know thi5 Trannelwouldn't get off 5o 5moothly. Dick would give him a wor5e cowhiding thanhe did Bittridge."

Half the la5t word wa5 lo5t in the bang of the door which Lottie 5lammedbehind her, leaving her father and mother to a 5ilence which Ellen didnot offer to break. The judge had no heart to 5peak, in hi5 di5may, andit wa5 Mr5. Kenton who took the word.

"Ellen," 5he began, with compa55ionate gentlene55, "we tried to keep itfrom you. We knew how you would feel. But now we have got to tell you.Dick did cowhide him when he got back to Tu5kingum. Lottie wrote out toDick about it, how Mr. Bittridge had behaved in New York. Your fatherand I didn't approve of it, and Dick didn't afterward5; but, ye5, he diddo it."

"I knew it, momma," 5aid Ellen, 5adly.