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"
(
And
here
the
sobs
of
her
parents
and
sisters
and
brothers
were
heard
throughout
the
courtroom
.
)
"
Gentlemen
,
"
went
on
Mason
,
and
from
this
point
carrying
on
the
picture
of
Roberta
's
life
from
the
time
she
first
left
home
to
join
Grace
Marr
until
,
having
met
Clyde
on
Crum
Lake
and
fallen
out
with
her
friend
and
patrons
,
the
Newtons
,
because
of
him
,
she
accepted
his
dictum
that
she
live
alone
,
amid
strange
people
,
concealing
the
suspicious
truth
of
this
from
her
parents
,
and
then
finally
succumbing
to
his
wiles
--
the
letters
she
had
written
him
from
Biltz
detailing
every
single
progressive
step
in
this
story
.
And
from
there
,
by
the
same
meticulous
process
,
he
proceeded
to
Clyde
--
his
interest
in
the
affairs
of
Lycurgus
society
and
the
rich
and
beautiful
Miss
X
,
who
because
of
a
purely
innocent
and
kindly
,
if
infatuated
,
indication
on
her
part
that
he
might
hope
to
aspire
to
her
hand
--
had
unwittingly
evoked
in
him
a
passion
which
had
been
the
cause
of
the
sudden
change
in
his
attitude
and
emotions
toward
Roberta
,
resulting
,
as
Mason
insisted
he
would
show
,
in
the
plot
that
had
resulted
in
Roberta
's
death
.
"
But
who
is
the
individual
,
"
he
suddenly
and
most
dramatically
exclaimed
at
this
point
,
"
against
whom
I
charge
all
these
things
?
There
he
sits
!
Is
he
the
son
of
wastrel
parents
--
a
product
of
the
slums
--
one
who
had
been
denied
every
opportunity
for
a
proper
or
honorable
conception
of
the
values
and
duties
of
a
decent
and
respectable
life
?
Is
he
?
On
the
contrary
.
His
father
is
of
the
same
strain
that
has
given
Lycurgus
one
of
its
largest
and
most
constructive
industries
--
the
Griffiths
Collar
&
Shirt
Company
.
He
was
poor
--
yes
--
no
doubt
of
that
.
But
not
more
so
than
Roberta
Alden
--
and
her
character
appears
not
to
have
been
affected
by
her
poverty
.
His
parents
in
Kansas
City
,
Denver
,
and
before
that
Chicago
and
Grand
Rapids
,
Michigan
,
appear
to
have
been
unordained
ministers
of
the
proselytizing
and
mission-conducting
type-people
who
,
from
all
I
can
gather
,
are
really
,
sincerely
religious
and
right-principled
in
every
sense
.
But
this
,
their
oldest
son
,
and
the
one
who
might
have
been
expected
to
be
deeply
influenced
by
them
,
early
turned
from
their
world
and
took
to
a
more
garish
life
.
He
became
a
bell-boy
in
a
celebrated
Kansas
City
hotel
,
the
Green
-
Davidson
.
"
And
now
he
proceeded
to
explain
that
Clyde
had
ever
been
a
rolling
stone
--
one
who
,
by
reason
of
some
quirk
of
temperament
,
perhaps
,
preferred
to
wander
here
and
there
.
Later
,
as
he
now
explained
,
he
had
been
given
an
important
position
as
head
of
a
department
in
the
well-known
factory
of
his
uncle
at
Lycurgus
.
And
then
gradually
he
was
introduced
into
the
circles
in
which
his
uncle
and
his
children
were
familiar
.
And
his
salary
was
such
that
he
could
afford
to
keep
a
room
in
one
of
the
better
residences
of
the
city
,
while
the
girl
he
had
slain
lived
in
a
mean
room
in
a
back
street
.
"
And
yet
,
"
he
continued
,
"
how
much
has
been
made
here
of
the
alleged
youth
of
this
defendant
?
"
(
Here
he
permitted
himself
a
scornful
smile
.
)
"
He
has
been
called
by
his
counsel
and
others
in
the
newspapers
a
boy
,
over
and
over
again
.
He
is
not
a
boy
.
He
is
a
bearded
man
.
He
has
had
more
social
and
educational
advantages
than
any
one
of
you
in
the
jury
box
.
He
has
traveled
.
In
hotels
and
clubs
and
the
society
with
which
he
was
so
intimately
connected
in
Lycurgus
,
he
has
been
in
contact
with
decent
,
respectable
,
and
even
able
and
distinguished
people
.
Why
,
as
a
matter
of
fact
,
at
the
time
of
his
arrest
two
months
ago
,
he
was
part
of
as
smart
a
society
and
summer
resort
group
as
this
region
boasts
.
Remember
that
!
His
mind
is
a
mature
,
not
,
an
immature
one
.
It
is
fully
developed
and
balanced
perfectly
.
"
Gentlemen
,
as
the
state
will
soon
proceed
to
prove
,
"
he
went
on
,
"
it
was
no
more
than
four
months
after
his
arrival
in
Lycurgus
that
this
dead
girl
came
to
work
for
the
defendant
in
the
department
of
which
he
was
the
head
.
And
it
was
not
more
than
two
months
after
that
before
he
had
induced
her
to
move
from
the
respectable
and
religious
home
which
she
had
chosen
in
Lycurgus
,
to
one
concerning
which
she
knew
nothing
and
the
principal
advantage
of
which
,
as
he
saw
it
,
was
that
it
offered
secrecy
and
seclusion
and
freedom
from
observation
for
that
vile
purpose
which
already
he
entertained
in
regard
to
her
.
"
There
was
a
rule
of
the
Griffiths
Company
,
as
we
will
later
show
in
this
trial
,
which
explains
much
--
and
that
was
that
no
superior
officer
or
head
of
any
department
was
permitted
to
have
anything
to
do
with
any
girls
working
under
him
,
or
for
the
factory
,
in
or
out
of
the
factory
.
It
was
not
conducive
to
either
the
morals
or
the
honor
of
those
working
for
this
great
company
,
and
they
would
not
allow
it
.
And
shortly
after
coming
there
,
this
man
had
been
instructed
as
to
that
rule
.
But
did
that
deter
him
?
Did
the
so
recent
and
favorable
consideration
of
his
uncle
in
any
way
deter
him
?
Not
in
the
least
.
Secrecy
!
Secrecy
!
From
the
very
beginning
!
Seduction
!
Seduction
!
The
secret
and
intended
and
immoral
and
illegal
and
socially
unwarranted
and
condemned
use
of
her
body
outside
the
regenerative
and
ennobling
pale
of
matrimony
!
"
That
was
his
purpose
,
gentlemen
!
But
was
it
generally
known
by
any
one
in
Lycurgus
or
elsewhere
that
such
a
relationship
as
this
existed
between
him
and
Roberta
Alden
?
Not
a
soul
!
NOT
A
SOUL
!
,
as
far
as
I
have
been
able
to
ascertain
,
was
ever
so
much
as
partially
aware
of
this
relationship
until
after
this
girl
was
dead
.
Not
a
soul
!
Think
of
that
!
