"He used you as an example," she explained. "He said that you were the
most important person in the county; that your opinion counted for the
most. He said that you were a regular patron of his hotel, and that
you'd object seriously to giving your order, as he said, to a 'busted
actress.'"
"That's perfectly unwarranted," fumed the judge. "Culver had no right to
use my name like that. It's outrageous!"
"I hoped you'd feel that way," said Rose.
The judge pounded on the desk. "That's not what I mean. He had no right
to drag me into it at all; into a miserable business like that."
"It is a miserable business," Rose assented. "It's a thoroughly
contemptible business. But Mr. Culver didn't drag you into it
deliberately. You were passing the door as we stood talking, and he used
you for an illustration. But afterward he said that if you told him it
was all right to give me a job, he would do it. That's what I have come
up to ask you to do."
"That," said the judge, setting his teeth and breathing hard, "is the
most monstrous piece of impudence I have ever heard of.
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