I have every confidence in my wife's sense of justice." I experienced a thrill of admiration for the appreciation he evinced in those words.

Yet I pursued the subject resolutely.
"Have you an enemy, Mayor Packard?
Any real and downright enemy capable of a deep and serious attempt at destroying your happiness ?" "None that I know of, Miss Saunders.

I have political enemies, of course men, who, influenced by party feeling, are not above attacking methods and possibly my official reputation; but personal ones--wretches willing to stab me in my home-life and affections, that I can not believe.

My life has been as an open book.

I have harmed no man knowingly and, as far as I know, no man has ever cherished a wish to injure me." "Who constitute your household?
How many servants do you keep and how long have they been with you ?" "Now you exact details with which only Mrs.Packard is conversant.