Justice Duval's Wife

Speaking of Stanley Matthews's marriage reminds me of a story which Ogle Taylor telle of Justicc Duval who ivhs on the Supreme bench for twenty-five years, serving f rom 1811 to 1836. Judge Duval was a Representativo from Maryland to the lst Congress, and while there he and William B. Giles, of Virginia, boarded inPhiladelphia with Mrs. Gibbons, who had a daughter who was neither young nor taciturn. Giles and Duval bucame great friends, but after they left Congress they lost sight of each other for a time. They met again in Washington at the beginning of Jeflerson's Administration, when Giles was Senator and Duval Controller of the Treasury. They were happy in the revival of old times, and were enjcying thcmselves in chatting about them until Senator Giles inquired of Duval. "What has become of that d - dcacklingold maid, Jennie Gibbons?" "She is Mrs. Duval, sir," was the reply and it is needless to say that the conversation after this was for a time rather strained.