26/32 He came to his friend's every evening, and sat there for hours in dark reverie. "In either case--what will become of her!" "Woodstock shall help us in that," Waymark replied. "She must get a place of some kind." "How dreadfully she is suffering, and how dark life will be before her!" And so the day of the trial came. The pawnbroker's evidence was damaging. The silver spoon had been pledged, he asserted, at the same time with another article for which Ida possessed the duplicate. |