etition with a man graduated from the institutions of another
country, even in the high schools. If this be the case--"

"You can be certain that it is," said Linda, "because Donald whispered
to me as he passed me half an hour ago, coming from the school building,
that TODAY Oka Sayye's hair is a uniform, shining black, and he
also thought that he had used a lipstick and rouge in an effort at
rejuvenation. Do you think, from your knowledge of Donald, that he would
imagine that?"

"No," said Judge Whiting, "I don't think such a thing would occur to him
unless he saw it."

"Neither do I," said Linda. "From the short acquaintance I have with him
I should not call him at all imaginative, but he is extremely quick and
wonderfully retentive. You have to show him but once from which cactus
he can get Victrola needles and fishing hooks, or where to find material
for wooden legs."

The Judge laughed. "Doesn't prove much," he said. "You wouldn't have
to show me that more than once either. If anyone were giving me an
intensive course on such interesting subjects, I would guarantee to
remember, even at my age."

Linda nodded in acquiescence. "Then you can regard it as quite certain,"
she said, "that Oka Sayye is making up in an effort to appear younger
than he is which means that he doesn't want his right questioned to be
in our schools, to absorb the things that we are taught, to learn our
language, our government, our institutions, our ideals, our approximate
strength and our only-too-apparent weakness."

The Judge leaned forward and waited attentively.

"The other matter," said Linda, "was relative to Saturday. There may not
be a thing in it, but sometimes a woman's intuition proves truer than
what a man thinks he sees and knows. I haven't SEEN a thing, and I don't
KNOW a thing, but I don't believe your gardener was sick last week.
I believe he had a dirty job he wanted done and preferred to save his
position and avoid risks by getting some other Jap who had no family
and no interests here, to do it for him. I don't BELIEVE that your car,
having run all right Friday night, was shot to pieces Saturday morning
so that Donald went smash with it in a manner that might very easily
have killed him, or sent him to the hospital for months, while Oka Sayye
carried off the honors without competition I want to ask you to find out
whether your regular gardener truly was ill, whether he has a family and
interests to protect here, or