Are you going to set him loose again to roar and to devour ? '' `` He may reform , '' said poor Anne , beset by foe without and traitor within . `` Reform your grandmother ! '' retorted Miss Cornelia . `` Dick Moore got the injuries that left him as he is in a drunken brawl . He DESERVES his fate . It was sent on him for a punishment . I do n't believe the doctor has any business to tamper with the visitations of God . '' `` Nobody knows how Dick was hurt , Miss Cornelia . It may not have been in a drunken brawl at all . He may have been waylaid and robbed . '' `` Pigs MAY whistle , but they 've poor mouths for it , '' said Miss Cornelia . `` Well , the gist of what you tell me is that the thing is settled and there 's no use in talking . If that 's so I 'll hold my tongue . I do n't propose to wear MY teeth out gnawing files . When a thing has to be I give in to it . But I like to make mighty sure first that it HAS to be . Now , I 'll devote MY energies to comforting and sustaining Leslie . And after all , '' added Miss Cornelia , brightening up hopefully , `` perhaps nothing can be done for Dick . '' CHAPTER 31 THE TRUTH MAKES FREE Leslie , having once made up her mind what to do , proceeded to do it with characteristic resolution and speed .
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