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Linda folded her slim hands on the table and leaned forward.
"Judge Whiting," she said earnestly, "I know very little about
men. The most I know was what I learned about my father and the
men with whom he occasionally hunted and fished. They were all
such fine men that I must have grown up thinking that every man
was very like them, but one day I came in direct contact with the
Jap that Donald is trying to beat, and the thing I saw in his
face put fear into my heart and it has been there ever since. I
have almost an unreasoning fear of that Jap, not because he has
said anything or done anything. It's just instinctive. I may be
wholly wrong in having come to you and in taking up your time,
but there are two things I wanted to tell you. I could have told
Donald, but if I did and his mind went off at a tangent thinking
of these things he wouldn't be nearly so likely to be in
condition to give his best thought to his studies. If I really
made him see what I think I have seen, and fear what I know I
fear, he might fail where I would give almost anything to see him
succeed; so I thought I would come to you and tell you about it
and ask you please to think it over, and to take extra care of
him, because I really believe that he may be in danger; and if he
is I never shall be able to rid myself of a sense of
responsibility."
"I see," said Judge Whiting. "Now tell me, just as explicitly as
you have told me this, exactly what it is that you fear.
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