"Look
at the way he sneaked home, and left the other young man to get a
doctor and help move Sheeley to the hospital. Yes, sir, it's time for
your medicine, just wait 'till I finish this spool and I'll go down
and heat the water."
"He--he oughtn't to have gone away?" said Miss Lady, looking at the
Doctor interrogatively.
"Donald, you mean? Certainly not, it was most ill-advised, probably
some quixotic idea about not wanting to testify against his friend. If
you knew the boy you would understand what a hot-headed, harum-scarum
person he is. He was my pupil at one time and I grew quite fond of
him. He has ability, undoubted ability, but he is a ship without a
rudder; he has been drifting ever since he was born."
"This acquittal of Mr. Dillingham puts the blame on--on him, doesn't
it?"
"Naturally. His absence at the trial was undoubtedly one of the
strongest arguments in Dillingham's favor. Mr. Gooch tells me that the
counsel for the defense took especial pains to throw suspicion upon
Donald. The case has been confusing in the extreme, the absence of
witnesses, the failure to establish the ownership of the pistol, the
absurd complication about the slot machine and crowbar,--an absolute
jumble of contradictory evidence.
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