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from the second-story window of the court building: "Oh yes, David Jones come into court! Oh yes, David Jones come into court! Oh yes!"

The fat man nodded. "They're callin’ up my case. . . ." He felt in his pocket to assure himself that the contract was still there, then could not resist giving the youth a parting shaft of advice, "Young man, I ricolleck when yore grandfather, Jefferson Coltrane, uster be circuit jedge here. Ole Jefferson Coltrane would uh had a great head on him if he hadn't been spiled by edjercation. I hope you do take after him one way and don't t'other. Well, see you later, Jim," and the great man took himself up the gravelled path and into the courthouse.

Abner stood looking after him shadowed by the vague melancholy which any mention of his unfortunate mother always aroused in his heart.

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