A Private Chivalry by Francis Lynde

IN the Langford household the judge and Dorothy were the only early risers, and on the morning following Will's home-bringing they breakfasted alone together as usual. Dorothy and her mother had sat up for the wayward one the night before; but at the breakfast table the daughter saw that the news of his son's return brought small comfort to her father. The cause of his disquietude was not far to seek. The morning papers lay unopened beside his plate, and he left them there when he retreated to the library.

Being a woman, Dorothy did not thus deny herself the luxury of suffering with full knowledge. She opened the papers and read the reports of the raid on Draco's; and she did not fail to put up a little pean of thanksgiving when she found that her brother's name was omitted in the list of the arrests. Stopping only long enough to make assurance doubly sure, she hastened to the library.