She shut her eyes, but not tightly enough to hold back the tears that soon carne creeping slowly out from beneath the closed lashes.
Ralph Ridley was a lawyer of marked ability.

A few years before, he had given up a good practice at the bar for an office under the State government.

Afterward he was sent to Congress and passed four years in Washington.

Like too many of our ablest public men, the temptations of that city were too much for him.

It was the old sad story that repeats itself every year.