so Bud was not fined for contempt. The judge was
a married man himself, and he may have had a
sympathetic understanding of Bud's position. At
any rate he listened unofficially, and helped Bud out
with the legal part of it, so that Bud walked out
of the judge's office financially free, even though he
had a suspicion that his freedom would not bear
the test of prosperity, and that Marie's mother would
let him alone only so long as he and prosperity were
strangers.

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