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The next day, however, he had to pull himself together somehow, for, as senior magistrate of the district, it was his duty to preside over the sitting of the Court.
He told himself it was imperative that he should be there, for the more he kept himself in the public eye, he had sense enough to see, the stronger and more unassailable would be his position if any suspicion should be raised about him later.