The Judge was now excused and Harold King was called. After King was questioned other men more or less prominent about town were called. The examination disclosed nothing that the public could not have known without an investigation except that it revealed positively who a few of the Klansmen were. When at the end of two days the investigations were brought to a close the anti-Klan forces were disappointed with the results. As the crowd left the court room after the close of the investigation, Springer asked Captain Smith, the commander of the American Legion, "What do you think of a judge being the head of a Ku Klux Klan?" "I think it must be a mighty good organization with Judge Rider at the head of it." The reply was not what Springer desired, consequently he made no reply nor asked any more questions of the captain, but hastened to his editorial den to write a modest request that since the investigation had disclosed the fact that Judge Rider was a Klansman he be requested to resign at once from his office. Chapter XXV When Harold saw Ruth after she secured the position with the Wing Mortgage Company one of the first things she wanted to know was why he had asked over the 'phone as to her associations with men. "I heard that you had been keeping company with a disreputable young man, and I wanted to prove that I was the man," he said. "Who said I had been keeping bad company?" "Your former employer." "Stover?" "Yes. I had just learned through my friend Wilson that someone had told Wing that you associated with a disreputable young man and that was the reason you did not get the job. I guessed at once that it was Stover. Wilson admitted it was he. I wanted to know if you had been with any other men so that I would know how to talk to Stover. When I talked to him he said that he didn't mean his nephew, so there wasn't anyone for him to mean but me. I went to Wing then and confessed that I was the disreputable young man." "I just knew that you had something to do with my getting that job. Of course Stover spoke that way of you because you belong to the Klan." "Yes, he pretends so; but the real reason is because he can't use me or bribe me. As I told you before, Stover is a crook and one of these days I will prove it to you and to the world. I know why you lost your job at the bank. It was on my account, wasn't it?" "I don't have to answer, do I?" "No. I know." "I want to thank you for helping me get the job and especially for setting me right in the estimation of Mr. Wing. I certainly appreciate it." "It was a great pleasure to be of some little assistance to you, but I am the one who is indebted for a job. You are the one who secured me my chance. How can I repay you?" "Who's been tattling?" she asked, laughing. "Your friend, Miss Welty, told me the last trip I made to the capital." "She's a piker; she told me she wouldn't tell."