She laid the Clarion on the table, without comment, and proceeded to discuss the coming trial. The only course she had to suggest was that they plead for a postponement on the ground that they needed more time in which to prepare their defense. If that plea were denied, then before them seemed certain conviction. On that plea, then, they decided to place all their hope.
When this matter had been talked out Doctor West took the Clarion from the table and again read the editorial with troubled face, while Katherine walked to and fro across the floor, her mind all on the trial.
“If the town does sell, it will be too bad!” he sighed.
“I suppose so,” said Katherine mechanically.
“It has reached me that people are saying that the system isn’t worth anything like what we paid for it.”
“Is that so?” she asked absently.
Doctor West drew himself up and his faded cheeks flushed indignantly.
“No, it is not so. I don’t know what’s wrong, but it’s the very best system of its size in the Middle West!”
She paused.