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In November he was reëlected , and there was a torchlight procession up the aisle of elms and all the neighbors stood on the front porch , including the Van Dorns and the Mortons and John Kollander in his blue soldier clothes , carrying the flag into another county office , and the Henry Fenns , while the Doctor addressed the multitude ! And there was cheering , whereupon Mr. Van Dorn , Judge pro tem and Judge-elect , made a speech with eloquence and fire in it ; John Kollander made his well-known flag speech , and Captain Morton got some comfort out of the election of Comrade Nesbit , who had stood where bullets were thickest and as a boy had bared his breast to the foe to save his country , and drawing the Doctor into the corner , filed early application to be made sergeant-at-arms of the State Senate and was promised that or Something Equally Good . The hungry friends of the new Senator so loaded him with obligations that blessed night that he again sold his soul to the devil , went in with the organization , got all the places for all his people , and being something of an organizer himself , distributed the patronage for half the State . Ten days later -- or perhaps it may have been two weeks later , at half past five in the evening -- the Judge-elect was sitting at his desk , handsomely dressed in black -- as befitting the dignity of his office . He and his newly appointed court stenographer had returned the hour before from an adjoining county where they had been holding court . The Judge was alone , if one excepts the young woman at the typewriting desk , before whom he was preening , as though she were a mere impersonal mirror . During the hour the Judge had visited the tailor 's and had returned to his office wearing a new , long-tailed coat .