The Lifted Bandage

“Master Jack was decided a murderer,” the judge tells his butler—and then sits staring through the window as if the words have emptied the world.

On a November evening, with the west sky darkening beyond the leaded panes, Judge John comes home from the coroner’s hearing and can scarcely take off his coat. His nephew Dick, a young clergyman, believes Jack is innocent and urges the judge to weigh more than the evidence: he knows the young man’s character. But the judge has trained himself to trust the facts, and now the verdict threatens to strip away the last purpose he can find in life. Can Dick make him question the certainty that is carrying him toward despair?

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