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"LEIGH'S acquitted! " Judge Jessup, with a flushed face, bent over to whisper it to Mrs. Carter.
In the crowd and confusion of the court-room she seemed too dazed to hear the foreman of the jury as he answered the judge's interrogation. She looked up at the old lawyer, her lip quivering like a child.