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And
,
in
addition
,
the
country
girl
who
had
been
on
the
steamer
"
Cygnus
"
and
who
had
noticed
Clyde
,
wrote
Mason
that
she
remembered
him
wearing
a
straw
hat
,
also
his
leaving
the
boat
at
Sharon
,
a
bit
of
evidence
which
most
fully
confirmed
that
of
the
captain
of
the
boat
and
caused
Mason
to
feel
that
Providence
or
Fate
was
working
with
him
.
And
last
,
but
most
important
of
all
to
him
,
there
came
a
communication
from
a
woman
residing
in
Bedford
,
Pennsylvania
,
who
announced
that
during
the
week
of
July
third
to
tenth
,
she
and
her
husband
had
been
camping
on
the
east
shore
of
Big
Bittern
,
near
the
southern
end
of
the
lake
.
And
while
rowing
on
the
lake
on
the
afternoon
of
July
eighth
,
at
about
six
o'clock
,
she
had
heard
a
cry
which
sounded
like
that
of
a
woman
or
girl
in
distress
--
a
plaintive
,
mournful
cry
.
It
was
very
faint
and
had
seemed
to
come
from
beyond
the
island
which
was
to
the
south
and
west
of
the
bay
in
which
they
were
fishing
.
Mason
now
proposed
to
remain
absolutely
silent
regarding
this
information
,
and
that
about
the
camera
and
films
and
the
data
regarding
Clyde
's
offense
in
Kansas
City
,
until
nearer
the
day
of
trial
,
or
during
the
trial
itself
,
when
it
would
be
impossible
for
the
defense
to
attempt
either
to
refute
or
ameliorate
it
in
any
way
.
As
for
Belknap
and
Jephson
,
apart
from
drilling
Clyde
in
the
matter
of
his
general
denial
based
on
his
change
of
heart
once
he
had
arrived
at
Grass
Lake
,
and
the
explanation
of
the
two
hats
and
the
bag
,
they
could
not
see
that
there
was
much
to
do
.
True
,
there
was
the
suit
thrown
in
Fourth
Lake
near
the
Cranstons
'
,
but
after
much
trolling
on
the
part
of
a
seemingly
casual
fisherman
,
that
was
brought
up
,
cleaned
and
pressed
,
and
now
hung
in
a
locked
closet
in
the
Belknap
and
Jephson
office
.
Also
,
there
was
the
camera
at
Big
Bittern
,
dived
for
but
never
found
by
them
--
a
circumstance
which
led
Jephson
to
conclude
that
Mason
must
have
it
,
and
so
caused
him
to
decide
that
he
would
refer
to
it
at
the
earliest
possible
opportunity
at
the
trial
.
But
as
for
Clyde
striking
her
with
it
,
even
accidentally
,
well
,
it
was
decided
at
that
time
at
least
,
to
contend
that
he
had
not
--
although
after
exhuming
Roberta
's
body
at
Biltz
it
had
been
found
that
the
marks
on
her
face
,
even
at
this
date
,
did
correspond
in
some
degree
to
the
size
and
shape
of
the
camera
.
For
,
in
the
first
place
,
they
were
exceedingly
dubious
of
Clyde
as
a
witness
.
Would
he
or
would
he
not
,
in
telling
of
how
it
all
happened
,
be
sufficiently
direct
or
forceful
and
sincere
to
convince
any
jury
that
he
had
so
struck
her
without
intending
to
strike
her
?
For
on
that
,
marks
or
no
marks
,
would
depend
whether
the
jury
was
going
to
believe
him
.
And
if
it
did
not
believe
that
he
struck
her
accidentally
,
then
a
verdict
of
guilty
,
of
course
.
And
so
they
prepared
to
await
the
coming
of
the
trial
,
only
working
betimes
and
in
so
far
as
they
dared
,
to
obtain
testimony
or
evidence
as
to
Clyde
's
previous
good
character
,
but
being
blocked
to
a
degree
by
the
fact
that
in
Lycurgus
,
while
pretending
to
be
a
model
youth
outwardly
,
he
had
privately
been
conducting
himself
otherwise
,
and
that
in
Kansas
City
his
first
commercial
efforts
had
resulted
in
such
a
scandal
.
However
,
one
of
the
most
difficult
matters
in
connection
with
Clyde
and
his
incarceration
here
,
as
Belknap
and
Jephson
as
well
as
the
prosecution
saw
it
,
was
the
fact
that
thus
far
not
one
single
member
of
his
own
or
his
uncle
's
family
had
come
forward
to
champion
him
.
And
to
no
one
save
Belknap
and
Jephson
had
he
admitted
where
his
parents
were
.
Yet
would
it
not
be
necessary
,
as
both
Belknap
and
Jephson
argued
from
time
to
time
,
if
any
case
at
all
were
to
be
made
out
for
him
,
to
have
his
mother
or
father
,
or
at
least
a
sister
or
a
brother
,
come
forward
to
say
a
good
word
for
him
?
Otherwise
,
Clyde
might
appear
to
be
a
pariah
,
one
who
had
been
from
the
first
a
drifter
and
a
waster
and
was
now
purposely
being
avoided
by
all
who
knew
him
.
For
this
reason
,
at
their
conference
with
Darrah
Brookhart
they
had
inquired
after
Clyde
's
parents
and
had
learned
that
in
so
far
as
the
Griffiths
of
Lycurgus
were
concerned
,
there
lay
a
deep
objection
to
bringing
on
any
member
of
this
western
branch
of
the
family
.
There
was
,
as
he
explained
,
a
great
social
gap
between
them
,
which
it
would
not
please
the
Lycurgus
Griffiths
to
have
exploited
here
.
Besides
,
who
could
say
but
that
once
Clyde
's
parents
were
notified
or
discovered
by
the
yellow
press
,
they
might
not
lend
themselves
to
exploitation
.
Both
Samuel
and
Gilbert
Griffiths
,
as
Brookhart
now
informed
Belknap
,
had
suggested
that
it
was
best
,
if
Clyde
did
not
object
,
to
keeping
his
immediate
relatives
in
the
background
.
In
fact
,
on
this
,
in
some
measure
at
least
,
was
likely
to
depend
the
extent
of
their
financial
aid
to
Clyde
.
