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As for the owner of the store, he was not
sufficiently sensitive to feel the verity in the accents of the
speaker. Moreover, he was a man who followed the conventional,
with never a distraction due to imagination and sympathy. Just
now, too, he was experiencing a keen irritation against himself
because of the manner in which he had been sensible to the
influence of her protestation, despite his will to the contrary.
That irritation against himself only reacted against the girl,
and caused him to steel his heart to resist any tendency toward
commiseration. So, this declaration of innocence was made quite
in vain--indeed, served rather to strengthen his disfavor toward
the complainant, and to make his manner harsher when she voiced
the pitiful question over which she had wondered and grieved.
"Why did you ask the judge to send me to prison?"
"The thieving that has been going on in this store for over a
year has got to stop," Gilder answered emphatically, with all his
usual energy of manner restored. As he spoke, he raised his eyes
and met the girl's glance fairly.


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