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And
turning
and
slowly
and
heavily
moving
toward
the
rear
staircase
,
while
Smillie
,
wide-eyed
,
gazed
after
him
in
awe
.
The
power
of
him
!
The
decision
of
him
!
The
fairness
of
him
in
such
a
deadly
crisis
!
And
Gilbert
equally
impressed
,
also
sitting
and
staring
.
His
father
was
a
man
,
really
.
He
might
be
cruelly
wounded
and
distressed
,
but
,
unlike
himself
,
he
was
neither
petty
nor
revengeful
.
And
next
Mr.
Darrah
Brookhart
,
a
large
,
well-dressed
,
well-fed
,
ponderous
and
cautious
corporation
lawyer
,
with
one
eye
half
concealed
by
a
drooping
lid
and
his
stomach
rather
protuberant
,
giving
one
the
impression
of
being
mentally
if
not
exactly
physically
suspended
,
balloon-wise
,
in
some
highly
rarefied
atmosphere
where
he
was
moved
easily
hither
and
yon
by
the
lightest
breath
of
previous
legal
interpretations
or
decisions
of
any
kind
.
In
the
absence
of
additional
facts
,
the
guilt
of
Clyde
(
to
him
)
seemed
obvious
.
Or
,
waiving
that
,
as
he
saw
it
after
carefully
listening
to
Smillie
's
recounting
of
all
the
suspicious
and
incriminating
circumstances
,
he
would
think
it
very
difficult
to
construct
an
even
partially
satisfactory
defense
,
unless
there
were
some
facts
favoring
Clyde
which
had
not
thus
far
appeared
.
Those
two
hats
,
that
bag
--
his
slipping
away
like
that
.
Those
letters
.
But
he
would
prefer
to
read
them
.
For
upon
the
face
of
the
data
so
far
,
unquestionably
public
sentiment
would
be
all
against
Clyde
and
in
favor
of
the
dead
girl
and
her
poverty
and
her
class
,
a
situation
which
made
a
favorable
verdict
in
such
a
backwoods
county
seat
as
Bridgeburg
almost
impossible
.
For
Clyde
,
although
himself
poor
,
was
the
nephew
of
a
rich
man
and
hitherto
in
good
standing
in
Lycurgus
society
.
That
would
most
certainly
tend
to
prejudice
country-born
people
against
him
.
It
would
probably
be
better
to
ask
for
a
change
of
venue
so
as
to
nullify
the
force
of
such
a
prejudice
.
On
the
other
hand
,
without
first
sending
a
trained
cross-examiner
to
Clyde
--
one
,
who
being
about
to
undertake
the
defense
should
be
able
to
extract
the
facts
from
him
on
the
plea
that
on
his
truthful
answers
depended
his
life
--
he
would
not
be
able
to
say
whether
there
was
any
hope
or
not
.
In
his
office
was
a
certain
Mr.
Catchuman
,
a
very
able
man
,
who
might
be
sent
on
such
a
mission
and
on
whose
final
report
one
could
base
a
reasonable
opinion
.
However
,
there
were
now
various
other
aspects
of
such
a
case
as
this
which
,
in
his
estimation
,
needed
to
be
carefully
looked
into
and
decided
upon
.
For
,
of
course
,
as
Mr.
Griffiths
and
his
son
so
well
knew
,
in
Utica
,
New
York
City
,
Albany
(
and
now
that
he
came
to
think
of
it
,
more
particularly
in
Albany
,
where
were
two
brothers
,
Canavan
&
Canavan
,
most
able
if
dubious
individuals
)
,
there
were
criminal
lawyers
deeply
versed
in
the
abstrusities
and
tricks
of
the
criminal
law
.
And
any
of
them
--
no
doubt
--
for
a
sufficient
retainer
,
and
irrespective
of
the
primary
look
of
a
situation
of
this
kind
,
might
be
induced
to
undertake
such
a
defense
.
And
,
no
doubt
,
via
change
of
venue
,
motions
,
appeals
,
etc.
,
they
might
and
no
doubt
would
be
able
to
delay
and
eventually
effect
an
ultimate
verdict
of
something
less
than
death
,
if
such
were
the
wish
of
the
head
of
this
very
important
family
.
On
the
other
hand
,
there
was
the
undeniable
fact
that
such
a
hotly
contested
trial
as
this
would
most
assuredly
prove
to
be
would
result
in
an
enormous
amount
of
publicity
,
and
did
Mr.
Samuel
Griffiths
want
that
?
For
again
,
under
such
circumstances
,
was
it
not
likely
to
be
said
,
if
most
unjustly
,
of
course
,
that
he
was
using
his
great
wealth
to
frustrate
justice
?
The
public
was
so
prejudiced
against
wealth
in
such
cases
.
Yet
,
some
sort
of
a
defense
on
the
part
of
the
Griffiths
would
certainly
be
expected
by
the
public
,
whether
subsequently
the
same
necessity
for
such
defense
was
criticized
by
them
or
not
.
And
in
consequence
,
it
was
now
necessary
for
Mr.
Griffiths
and
his
son
to
decide
how
they
would
prefer
to
proceed
--
whether
with
very
distinguished
criminal
lawyers
such
as
the
two
he
had
just
named
,
or
with
less
forceful
counsel
,
or
none
.
For
,
of
course
,
it
would
be
possible
,
and
that
quite
inconspicuously
,
to
supply
Clyde
with
a
capable
and
yet
thoroughly
conservative
trial
lawyer
--
some
one
residing
and
practising
in
Bridgeburg
possibly
--
whose
duty
it
would
be
to
see
that
all
blatant
and
unjustified
reference
to
the
family
on
the
part
of
the
newspapers
was
minimized
.
And
so
,
after
three
more
hours
of
conference
,
it
was
finally
decided
by
Samuel
himself
that
at
once
Mr.
Brookhart
was
to
despatch
his
Mr.
Catchuman
to
Bridgeburg
to
interview
Clyde
,
and
thereafter
,
whatever
his
conclusions
as
to
his
guilt
or
innocence
,
he
was
to
select
from
the
local
array
of
legal
talent
--
for
the
present
,
anyhow
--
such
a
lawyer
as
would
best
represent
Clyde
fairly
.
Yet
with
no
assurances
of
means
or
encouragement
to
do
more
than
extract
from
Clyde
the
true
details
of
his
relationship
to
this
charge
And
those
once
ascertained
to
center
upon
such
a
defense
as
would
most
honestly
tend
to
establish
only
such
facts
as
were
honestly
favorable
to
Clyde
--
in
short
,
in
no
way
,
either
by
legal
chicane
or
casuistry
or
trickery
of
any
kind
,
to
seek
to
establish
a
false
innocence
and
so
defeat
the
ends
of
justice
.
Mr.
Catchuman
did
not
prove
by
any
means
to
be
the
one
to
extract
from
Clyde
anything
more
than
had
either
Mason
or
Smillie
.
Although
shrewd
to
a
degree
in
piecing
together
out
of
the
muddled
statements
of
another
such
data
as
seemed
most
probable
,
still
he
was
not
so
successful
in
the
realm
of
the
emotions
,
as
was
necessary
in
the
case
of
Clyde
.
He
was
too
legal
,
chilling
--
unemotional
.
And
in
consequence
,
after
grilling
Clyde
for
four
long
hours
one
hot
July
afternoon
,
he
was
eventually
compelled
to
desist
with
the
feeling
that
as
a
plotter
of
crime
Clyde
was
probably
the
most
arresting
example
of
feeble
and
blundering
incapacity
he
had
ever
met
.
For
since
Smillie
's
departure
Mason
had
proceeded
to
the
shores
of
Big
Bittern
with
Clyde
.
And
there
discovered
the
tripod
and
camera
.
Also
listened
to
more
of
Clyde
's
lies
.
And
as
he
now
explained
to
Catchuman
that
,
while
Clyde
denied
owning
a
camera
,
nevertheless
he
had
proof
that
he
did
own
one
and
had
taken
it
with
him
when
he
left
Lycurgus
.
Yet
when
confronted
with
this
fact
by
Catchuman
,
as
the
latter
now
noticed
,
Clyde
had
nothing
to
say
other
than
that
he
had
not
taken
a
camera
with
him
and
that
the
tripod
found
was
not
the
one
belonging
to
any
camera
of
his
--
a
lie
which
so
irritated
Catchuman
that
he
decided
not
to
argue
with
him
further
.
