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Government was a personal matter in that day ; public place was a personal perquisite . As for the reformation of Tom Van Dorn , for which all this juggling with sacred things was done , he had no idea that his moral regeneration was concerned in the deal , and never in all the years of his service did the vaguest hint come to him that the outrage of justice had been accomplished for his own soul 's good . The next morning Tom Van Dorn read of his appointment as Judge in the morning papers , and he pranced twice the length of Market Street , up one side and down the other , to let the populace congratulate him . Then with a fat box of candy he went to his office , where he gave the candy and certain other tokens of esteem to Miss Mauling , and at noon after the partnership of Calvin & Van Dorn had been dissolved , with the understanding that the young Judge was to keep his law books in Calvin 's office , and was to have a private office there -- for certain intangible considerations . Then after the business with Joseph Calvin was concluded , the young Judge in his private office with his hands under his coattails preened before Miss Mauling and talked from a shameless soul of his greed for power ! The girl before him gave him what he could not get at home , an abject adoration , uncritical , unabashed , unrestrained . The young man whom the newly qualified Judge had inherited as court stenographer was a sadly unemotional , rather methodical , old maid of a person , and Tom Van Dorn could not open his soul to this youth , so he was wont to stray back to the offices of Joseph Calvin to dictate his instructions to juries , and to look over the books in his own library in making up his decisions .