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His
voice
broke
and
seemingly
he
was
in
danger
of
falling
as
he
turned
toward
Roberta
again
.
And
now
,
Orville
Mason
,
swept
into
this
father
's
stricken
and
yet
retaliatory
mood
,
pressed
forward
to
exclaim
:
"
Come
away
,
Mr.
Alden
.
We
know
this
is
your
daughter
.
I
swear
all
you
gentlemen
as
witnesses
to
this
identification
.
And
if
it
shall
be
proved
that
this
little
girl
of
yours
was
murdered
,
as
it
now
seems
,
I
promise
you
,
Mr.
Alden
,
faithfully
and
dutifully
as
the
district
attorney
of
this
county
,
that
no
time
or
money
or
energy
on
my
part
will
be
spared
to
track
down
this
scoundrel
and
hale
him
before
the
proper
authorities
!
And
if
the
justice
of
Cataraqui
County
is
what
I
think
it
is
,
you
can
leave
him
to
any
jury
which
our
local
court
will
summon
.
And
you
wo
n't
need
to
sell
your
farm
,
either
.
"
Mr.
Mason
,
because
of
his
deep
,
if
easily
aroused
,
emotion
,
as
well
as
the
presence
of
the
thrilled
audience
,
was
in
his
most
forceful
as
well
as
his
very
best
oratorical
mood
.
And
one
of
the
Lutz
Brothers
--
Ed
--
the
recipient
of
all
of
the
county
coroner
's
business
--
was
moved
to
exclaim
:
"
That
's
the
ticket
,
Orville
.
You
're
the
kind
of
a
district
attorney
we
like
.
"
And
Everett
Beeker
now
called
out
:
"
Go
to
it
,
Mr.
Mason
.
We
're
with
you
to
a
man
when
it
comes
to
that
.
"
And
Fred
Heit
,
as
well
as
his
assistant
,
touched
by
Mason
's
dramatic
stand
,
his
very
picturesque
and
even
heroic
appearance
at
the
moment
,
now
crowded
closer
,
Heit
to
take
his
friend
by
the
hand
,
Earl
to
exclaim
:
"
More
power
to
you
,
Mr.
Mason
.
We
'll
do
all
we
can
,
you
bet
.
And
do
n't
forget
that
bag
that
she
left
at
Gun
Lodge
is
over
at
your
office
.
I
gave
it
to
Burton
two
hours
ago
.
"
"
That
's
right
,
too
I
was
almost
forgetting
that
,
"
exclaimed
Mason
,
most
calmly
and
practically
at
the
moment
,
the
previous
burst
of
oratory
and
emotion
having
by
now
been
somehow
merged
in
his
own
mind
with
the
exceptional
burst
of
approval
which
up
to
this
hour
he
had
never
experienced
in
any
case
with
which
previously
he
had
been
identified
.
As
he
proceeded
to
his
office
,
accompanied
by
Alden
and
the
officials
in
this
case
,
his
thought
was
running
on
the
motive
of
this
heinous
crime
--
the
motive
.
And
because
of
his
youthful
sexual
deprivations
,
his
mind
now
tended
continually
to
dwell
on
that
.
And
meditating
on
the
beauty
and
charm
of
Roberta
,
contrasted
with
her
poverty
and
her
strictly
moral
and
religious
upbringing
,
he
was
convinced
that
in
all
likelihood
this
man
or
boy
,
whoever
he
was
,
had
seduced
her
and
then
later
,
finding
himself
growing
tired
of
her
,
had
finally
chosen
this
way
to
get
rid
of
her
--
this
deceitful
,
alleged
marriage
trip
to
the
lake
.
And
at
once
he
conceived
an
enormous
personal
hate
for
the
man
.
The
wretched
rich
!
The
idle
rich
!
The
wastrel
and
evil
rich
--
a
scion
or
representative
of
whom
this
young
Clyde
Griffiths
was
.
If
he
could
but
catch
him
.
At
the
same
time
it
now
suddenly
occurred
to
him
that
because
of
the
peculiar
circumstances
attending
this
case
--
this
girl
cohabiting
with
this
man
in
this
way
--
she
might
be
pregnant
.
And
at
once
this
suspicion
was
sufficient
,
not
only
to
make
him
sexually
curious
in
regard
to
all
the
details
of
the
life
and
courtship
that
had
led
to
this
--
but
also
very
anxious
to
substantiate
for
himself
whether
his
suspicions
were
true
.
Immediately
he
began
to
think
of
a
suitable
doctor
to
perform
an
autopsy
--
if
not
here
,
then
in
Utica
or
Albany
--
also
of
communicating
to
Heit
his
suspicions
in
the
connection
,
and
of
having
this
,
as
well
as
the
import
of
the
blows
upon
her
face
,
determined
.
But
in
regard
to
the
bag
and
its
contents
,
which
was
the
immediate
matter
before
him
,
he
was
fortunate
in
finding
one
additional
bit
of
evidence
of
the
greatest
importance
.
For
,
apart
from
the
dresses
and
hats
made
by
Roberta
,
her
lingerie
,
a
pair
of
red
silk
garters
purchased
at
Braunstein
's
in
Lycurgus
and
still
in
their
original
box
,
there
was
the
toilet
set
presented
by
Clyde
to
her
the
Christmas
before
.
And
with
it
the
small
,
plain
white
card
,
on
which
Clyde
had
written
:
"
For
Bert
from
Clyde
--
Merry
Xmas
.
"
But
no
family
name
.
And
the
writing
a
hurried
scrawl
,
since
it
had
been
written
at
a
time
when
Clyde
was
most
anxious
to
be
elsewhere
than
with
her
.
