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"What has happened to change your views?"
"Now that is a question I can hardly answer without going into some
very private and delicate matters which I am sure you would not care to
discuss. It wouldn't be pleasant for you if I talked about them.
You'd be sorry afterwards."
"Would my peace of mind be affected?"
"Seriously. That's the reason I won't go into the matter."
"All the same," said the judge, "I think I'll hazard a guess about it.
Are these mysterious affairs you allude to in any way connected with
Miss King?"
"I see," said Meldon, "that you've been talking it all over with her,
and that's she given you a hint, so I need say no more."
"Miss King's only idea," said the judge, "is that you think I'm likely
to make myself objectionable in some way about the fishing. It appears
that there has been a dispute--"
"That miserable business between Simpkins and the Major. I know all
about that, and I may say at once that it had nothing whatever to do
with my attempt to keep you out of Ballymoy."
"I thought not. I merely mentioned it to show you that my niece is
quite in the dark about your real reason, and that I got no hint from
her.
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