"He's a good man," he said."I've known few better, given his chances.And none of this would have happened except for his old-time friendship for me.It was his loyalty--oh, the rarest and absurdest loyalty!--that made the first trouble between him and the man he shot.I've got to clear him!""Will it be hard?""They may make it so.I can only see part of it surely.When his wife left the office, she met Cory on the street.You saw what a pitiful kind of fool she was, irresponsible and helpless and feather-brained.There are thousands of women like that everywhere--some of them are `Court Beauties,'