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Code was taken to the cell, and only his mother and Pete stayed

with him to talk over the situation. It was determined to have

Squire Hardy come over in the evening (it was now five o'clock)

and give his opinion on the legal situation.

Ma Schofield went home and prepared her boy's supper herself, and

brought it with her own hands for him to eat. Code was in the

best of spirits at his success of the afternoon, and had no fear

whatever as to the outcome of his present situation.

Pete had gone away for an hour, and Ma Schofield had taken the

dishes back home, when the detective came in, saying that a

little girl who called herself Josie had come with a message.

Code asked to see her, and the great-eyed, dark little thing wept

bitterly over him, for to her fourteen years he represented all

the heroes of romance. Even as she passed him the message she

knew that she could never love again and that she would shortly

die of a broken heart.