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At
the
same
time
,
however
,
Brookhart
having
instructed
him
that
,
whatever
his
personal
conclusions
in
regard
to
Clyde
,
a
lawyer
of
sorts
was
indispensable
--
the
charity
,
if
not
the
honor
,
of
the
Griffiths
being
this
much
involved
,
the
western
Griffiths
,
as
Brookhart
had
already
explained
to
him
,
having
nothing
and
not
being
wanted
in
the
case
anyhow
--
he
decided
that
he
must
find
one
before
leaving
.
In
consequence
,
and
without
any
knowledge
of
the
local
political
situation
,
he
proceeded
to
the
office
of
Ira
Kellogg
,
president
of
the
Cataraqui
County
National
Bank
,
who
,
although
Catchuman
did
not
know
it
,
was
high
in
the
councils
of
the
Democratic
organization
.
And
because
of
his
religious
and
moral
views
,
this
same
Kellogg
was
already
highly
incensed
and
irritated
by
the
crime
of
which
Clyde
was
accused
.
On
the
other
hand
,
however
,
because
as
he
well
knew
this
case
was
likely
to
pave
the
way
for
an
additional
Republican
sweep
at
the
approaching
primaries
,
he
was
not
blind
to
the
fact
that
some
reducing
opposition
to
Mason
might
not
be
amiss
.
Fate
seemed
too
obviously
to
be
favoring
the
Republican
machine
in
the
person
of
and
crime
committed
by
Clyde
.
For
since
the
discovery
of
this
murder
,
Mason
had
been
basking
in
such
publicity
and
even
nation-wide
notoriety
as
had
not
befallen
any
district
attorney
of
this
region
in
years
and
years
.
Newspaper
correspondents
and
reporters
and
illustrators
from
such
distant
cities
as
Buffalo
,
Rochester
,
Chicago
,
New
York
and
Boston
,
were
already
arriving
as
everybody
knew
or
saw
,
to
either
interview
or
make
sketches
or
take
photos
of
Clyde
,
Mason
,
the
surviving
members
of
the
Alden
family
,
et
cetera
,
while
locally
Mason
was
the
recipient
of
undiluted
praise
,
even
the
Democratic
voters
in
the
county
joining
with
the
Republicans
in
assuring
each
other
that
Mason
was
all
right
,
that
he
was
handling
this
young
murderer
in
the
way
that
he
deserved
to
be
handled
,
and
that
neither
the
wealth
of
the
Griffiths
nor
of
the
family
of
that
rich
girl
whom
he
appeared
to
have
been
trying
to
capture
,
was
influencing
this
young
tribune
of
the
people
in
the
least
.
He
was
a
real
attorney
.
He
had
not
"
allowed
any
grass
to
grow
under
his
feet
,
you
bet
.
"
Indeed
previous
to
Catchuman
's
visit
,
a
coroner
's
jury
had
been
called
,
with
Mason
attending
and
directing
even
,
the
verdict
being
that
the
dead
girl
had
come
to
her
death
through
a
plot
devised
and
executed
by
one
Clyde
Griffiths
who
was
then
and
there
in
the
county
jail
of
Bridgeburg
and
that
he
be
held
to
await
the
verdict
of
the
County
Grand
Jury
to
whom
his
crime
was
soon
to
be
presented
.
And
Mason
,
through
an
appeal
to
the
Governor
,
as
all
now
knew
was
planning
to
secure
a
special
sitting
of
the
Supreme
Court
,
which
would
naturally
involve
an
immediate
session
of
the
County
Grand
Jury
in
order
to
hear
the
evidence
and
either
indict
or
discharge
Clyde
.
And
now
,
Catchuman
arriving
to
inquire
where
he
was
likely
to
find
a
local
lawyer
of
real
ability
who
could
be
trusted
to
erect
some
sort
of
a
defense
for
Clyde
.
And
immediately
as
an
offset
to
all
this
there
popped
into
Kellogg
's
mind
the
name
and
reputation
of
one
Hon.
Alvin
Belknap
,
of
Belknap
and
Jephson
,
of
this
same
city
--
an
individual
who
had
been
twice
state
senator
,
three
times
Democratic
assemblyman
from
this
region
,
and
more
recently
looked
upon
by
various
Democratic
politicians
as
one
who
would
be
favored
with
higher
honors
as
soon
as
it
was
possible
to
arrange
an
issue
which
would
permit
the
Democrats
to
enter
into
local
office
.
In
fact
,
only
three
years
before
,
in
a
contest
with
Mason
for
the
district
attorneyship
,
this
same
Belknap
had
run
closer
to
victory
than
any
other
candidate
on
the
Democratic
ticket
.
Indeed
,
so
rounded
a
man
was
he
politically
that
this
year
he
had
been
slated
for
that
very
county
judgeship
nomination
which
Mason
had
in
view
.
And
but
for
this
sudden
and
most
amazing
development
in
connection
with
Clyde
,
it
had
been
quite
generally
assumed
that
Belknap
,
once
nominated
,
would
be
elected
.
And
although
Mr.
Kellogg
did
not
quite
trouble
to
explain
to
Catchuman
all
the
complicated
details
of
this
very
interesting
political
situation
,
he
did
explain
that
Mr.
Belknap
was
a
very
exceptional
man
,
almost
the
ideal
one
,
if
one
were
looking
for
an
opponent
to
Mason
.
And
with
this
slight
introduction
,
Kellogg
now
offered
personally
to
conduct
Catchuman
to
Belknap
and
Jephson
's
office
,
just
across
the
way
in
the
Bowers
Block
.
And
then
knocking
at
Belknap
's
door
,
they
were
admitted
by
a
brisk
,
medium-sized
and
most
engaging-looking
man
of
about
forty-eight
,
whose
gray-blue
eyes
at
once
fixed
themselves
in
the
mind
of
Catchuman
as
the
psychic
windows
of
a
decidedly
shrewd
if
not
altogether
masterful
and
broad-gauge
man
.
For
Belknap
was
inclined
to
carry
himself
with
an
air
which
all
were
inclined
to
respect
.
He
was
a
college
graduate
,
and
in
his
youth
because
of
his
looks
,
his
means
,
and
his
local
social
position
(
his
father
had
been
a
judge
as
well
as
a
national
senator
from
here
)
,
he
had
seen
so
much
of
what
might
be
called
near-city
life
that
all
those
gaucheries
as
well
as
sex-inhibitions
and
sex-longings
which
still
so
greatly
troubled
and
motivated
and
even
marked
a
man
like
Mason
had
long
since
been
covered
with
an
easy
manner
and
social
understanding
which
made
him
fairly
capable
of
grasping
any
reasonable
moral
or
social
complication
which
life
was
prepared
to
offer
.
Indeed
he
was
one
who
naturally
would
approach
a
case
such
as
Clyde
's
with
less
vehemence
and
fever
than
did
Mason
.
For
once
,
in
his
twentieth
year
,
he
himself
had
been
trapped
between
two
girls
,
with
one
of
whom
he
was
merely
playing
while
being
seriously
in
love
with
the
other
.
And
having
seduced
the
first
and
being
confronted
with
an
engagement
or
flight
,
he
had
chosen
flight
.
But
not
before
laying
the
matter
before
his
father
,
by
whom
he
was
advised
to
take
a
vacation
,
during
which
time
the
services
of
the
family
doctor
were
engaged
with
the
result
that
for
a
thousand
dollars
and
expenses
necessary
to
house
the
pregnant
girl
in
Utica
,
the
father
had
finally
extricated
his
son
and
made
possible
his
return
,
and
eventual
marriage
to
the
other
girl
.
And
therefore
,
while
by
no
means
sympathizing
with
the
more
cruel
and
drastic
phases
of
Clyde
's
attempt
at
escape
--
as
so
far
charged
(
never
in
all
the
years
of
his
law
practice
had
he
been
able
to
grasp
the
psychology
of
a
murderer
)
still
because
of
the
rumored
existence
and
love
influence
of
a
rich
girl
whose
name
had
not
as
yet
been
divulged
he
was
inclined
to
suspect
that
Clyde
had
been
emotionally
betrayed
or
bewitched
.
Was
he
not
poor
and
vain
and
ambitious
?
He
had
heard
so
:
had
even
been
thinking
that
he
--
the
local
political
situation
being
what
it
was
might
advantageously
to
himself
--
and
perhaps
most
disruptingly
to
the
dreams
of
Mr.
Mason
be
able
to
construct
a
defense
--
or
at
least
a
series
of
legal
contentions
and
delays
which
might
make
it
not
so
easy
for
Mr.
Mason
to
walk
away
with
the
county
judgeship
as
he
imagined
.
Might
it
not
,
by
brisk
,
legal
moves
now
--
and
even
in
the
face
of
this
rising
public
sentiment
,
or
because
of
it
--
be
possible
to
ask
for
a
change
of
venue
--
or
time
to
develop
new
evidence
in
which
case
a
trial
might
not
occur
before
Mr.
Mason
was
out
of
office
.
He
and
his
young
and
somewhat
new
associate
,
Mr.
