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So as he sat and toyed with his Shriner 's pin and listened to the tales of a tepid schoolmistress ' romance that Emma told , he wondered if after all -- for a man of his tastes , she was n't really the flower of the flock . `` You know , George , '' she was old enough for that , and at rare times when they were alone she called him George , `` I 'm working up a kind of sorrow for Judge Van Dorn -- or pity or something . When I taught little Lila he was always sending her candy and little trinkets . Now Lila is in the grade above me , and do you know the Judge has taken to walking by the schoolhouse at recess , just to see her , and walking along at noon and at night to get a word with her . He has put up a swing and a teeter-totter board on the girls ' playgrounds . This morning I saw him standing , gazing after her , and he was as sad a figure as I ever saw . He caught me looking at him and smiled and said : '' ` Fine girl , Emma , ' and walked away . ''