The Merivale Banks by Mary Jane Holmes

Judge White had been consulted with regard to the meeting and asked to attend it, but had declined, inasmuch as Mr. Grey only owed him for a quarter's rent. But he made no effort to restrain the people.

"The dog deserves it, for, of course, he's been dishonest," he said. "I have been in the business long enough to know how it can be done, and I always mistrusted he was up to it."