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"
Gentlemen
of
the
jury
,
"
and
here
his
voice
took
on
an
almost
reverential
tone
,
"
Roberta
Alden
loved
this
defendant
with
all
the
strength
of
her
soul
.
She
loved
him
with
that
love
which
is
the
crowning
mystery
of
the
human
brain
and
the
human
heart
,
that
transcends
in
its
strength
and
its
weakness
all
fear
of
shame
or
punishment
from
even
the
immortal
throne
above
.
She
was
a
true
and
human
and
decent
and
kindly
girl
--
a
passionate
and
loving
girl
.
And
she
loved
as
only
a
generous
and
trusting
and
self-sacrificing
soul
can
love
.
And
loving
so
,
in
the
end
she
gave
to
him
all
that
any
woman
can
give
the
man
she
loves
.
"
Friends
,
this
thing
has
happened
millions
of
times
in
this
world
of
ours
,
and
it
will
happen
millions
and
millions
of
times
in
the
days
to
come
.
It
is
not
new
and
it
will
never
be
old
.
"
But
in
January
or
February
last
,
this
girl
,
who
is
now
dead
in
her
grave
,
was
compelled
to
come
to
this
defendant
,
Clyde
Griffiths
,
and
tell
him
that
she
was
about
to
become
a
mother
.
We
shall
prove
to
you
that
then
and
later
she
begged
him
to
go
away
with
her
and
make
her
his
wife
.
"
But
did
he
?
Would
he
?
Oh
,
no
!
For
by
that
time
a
change
had
come
over
the
dreams
and
the
affections
of
Clyde
Griffiths
.
He
had
had
time
to
discover
that
the
name
of
Griffiths
in
Lycurgus
was
one
that
would
open
the
doors
of
Lycurgus
exclusive
circles
--
that
the
man
who
was
no
one
in
Kansas
City
or
Chicago
--
was
very
much
of
a
person
here
,
and
that
it
would
bring
him
in
contact
with
girls
of
education
and
means
,
girls
who
moved
far
from
the
sphere
to
which
Roberta
Alden
belonged
.
Not
only
that
,
but
he
had
found
one
girl
to
whom
,
because
of
her
beauty
,
wealth
,
position
,
he
had
become
enormously
attached
and
beside
her
the
little
farm
and
factory
girl
in
the
pathetically
shabby
and
secret
room
to
which
he
had
assigned
her
,
looked
poor
indeed
--
good
enough
to
betray
but
not
good
enough
to
marry
.
And
he
would
not
.
"
Here
he
paused
,
but
only
for
a
moment
,
then
went
on
:
"
But
at
no
point
have
I
been
able
to
find
the
least
modification
or
cessation
of
any
of
these
social
activities
on
his
part
which
so
entranced
him
.
On
the
contrary
,
from
January
to
July
fifth
last
,
and
after
--
yes
,
even
after
she
was
finally
compelled
to
say
to
him
that
unless
he
could
take
her
away
and
marry
her
,
she
would
have
to
appeal
to
the
sense
of
justice
in
the
community
in
which
they
moved
,
and
after
she
was
cold
and
dead
under
the
waters
of
Big
Bittern
--
dances
,
lawn
fetes
,
automobile
parties
,
dinners
,
gay
trips
to
Twelfth
Lake
and
Bear
Lake
,
and
without
a
thought
,
seemingly
,
that
her
great
moral
and
social
need
should
modify
his
conduct
in
any
way
.
"
And
here
he
paused
and
gazed
in
the
direction
of
Belknap
and
Jephson
,
who
in
turn
,
were
not
sufficiently
disturbed
or
concerned
to
do
more
than
smile
,
first
at
him
and
then
at
each
other
,
although
Clyde
,
terrorized
by
the
force
and
the
vehemence
of
it
all
,
was
chiefly
concerned
to
note
how
much
of
exaggeration
and
unfairness
was
in
all
this
.
But
even
as
he
was
thinking
so
,
Mason
was
continuing
with
:
"
But
by
this
time
,
gentlemen
,
as
I
have
indicated
,
Roberta
Alden
had
become
insistent
that
Griffiths
make
her
his
wife
.
And
this
he
promised
to
do
.
Yet
,
as
all
the
evidence
here
will
show
,
he
never
intended
to
do
anything
of
the
kind
.
On
the
contrary
,
when
her
condition
became
such
that
he
could
no
longer
endure
her
pleas
or
the
danger
which
her
presence
in
Lycurgus
unquestionably
spelled
for
him
,
he
induced
her
to
go
home
to
her
father
's
house
,
with
the
suggestion
,
apparently
,
that
she
prepare
herself
by
making
some
necessary
clothes
,
against
the
day
when
he
would
come
for
her
and
remove
her
to
some
distant
city
where
they
would
not
be
known
,
yet
where
as
his
wife
she
could
honorably
bring
their
child
into
the
world
.
And
according
to
her
letters
to
him
,
as
I
will
show
,
that
was
to
have
been
in
three
weeks
from
the
time
she
departed
for
her
home
in
Biltz
.
But
did
he
come
for
her
as
he
had
promised
?
No
,
he
never
did
.
"
Eventually
,
and
solely
because
there
was
no
other
way
out
,
he
permitted
her
to
come
to
him
--
on
July
sixth
last
--
exactly
two
days
before
her
death
.
But
not
before
--
but
wait
!
--
In
the
meantime
,
or
from
June
fifth
to
July
sixth
,
he
allowed
her
to
brood
in
that
little
,
lonely
farm-house
on
the
outskirts
of
Biltz
in
Mimico
County
,
with
the
neighbors
coming
in
to
watch
and
help
her
make
some
clothes
,
which
even
then
she
did
not
dare
announce
as
her
bridal
trousseau
.
And
she
suspected
and
feared
that
this
defendant
would
fail
her
.
