Section 30Thus Peter was done with the Goober case, and mighty glad of ithe was. He was tired of the strain, he needed a rest and a littlepleasure. He had his pockets stuffed with money, and a good fatbank account, and proposed to take things easy for the firsttime inhis hard and lonely life.
The opportunity was at hand: for he had taken McGivney’sadvise and got himself another girl. It was a little romance, veryworldly and delightful. To understand it, you must know that in thejudicial procedure of AmericanCity they used both men and womenjurors; and because busy men of affairs did not want to waste theirtime in the jury-box, nor to have the time of their clerks andworkingmen wasted, there had gradually grown up a class of men andwomen who made their living by working as jurors. They hun
