"If she'd been in heaven and I'd been in hell, I'd have stretched out my arms to her still!"
Something in his eyes, in his voice, in his intensity, brought the judge to his side.
"How long has this thing been going on?" he asked seriously.
"Four years!"
"Before you came here?"
"Yes."
"You followed her here?"
"Yes."
Whereupon the judge gave vent to the one profane word in his vocabulary.
Then Sandy, having confided so far, made a clean breast of it, breaking down