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But
in
the
meantime
the
audience
,
hearing
that
an
actual
eye
-
witness
was
to
be
produced
,
and
not
by
the
prosecution
but
the
defense
,
was
at
once
upon
its
feet
,
craning
and
stirring
.
And
Justice
Oberwaltzer
,
irritated
to
an
exceptional
degree
by
the
informality
characteristic
of
this
trial
,
was
now
rapping
with
his
gavel
while
his
clerk
cried
loudly
:
"
Order
!
Order
!
Unless
everybody
is
seated
,
all
spectators
will
be
dismissed
!
The
deputies
will
please
see
that
all
are
seated
.
"
And
then
a
hushed
and
strained
silence
falling
as
Belknap
called
:
"
Clyde
Griffiths
,
take
the
witness
chair
.
"
And
the
audience
--
seeing
to
its
astonishment
,
Clyde
,
accompanied
by
Reuben
Jephson
,
making
his
way
forward
--
straining
and
whispering
in
spite
of
all
the
gruff
commands
of
the
judge
and
the
bailiffs
.
And
even
Belknap
,
as
he
saw
Jephson
approaching
,
being
a
little
astonished
,
since
it
was
he
who
according
to
the
original
plan
was
to
have
led
Clyde
through
his
testimony
.
But
now
Jephson
drawing
near
to
him
as
Clyde
was
being
seated
and
sworn
,
merely
whispered
:
"
Leave
him
to
me
,
Alvin
,
I
think
it
's
best
.
He
looks
a
little
too
strained
and
shaky
to
suit
me
,
but
I
feel
sure
I
can
pull
him
through
.
"
And
then
the
audience
noting
the
change
and
whispering
in
regard
to
it
.
And
Clyde
,
his
large
nervous
eyes
turning
here
and
there
,
thinking
:
Well
,
I
'm
on
the
witness
stand
at
last
.
And
now
everybody
's
watching
me
,
of
course
.
I
must
look
very
calm
,
like
I
did
n't
care
so
very
much
,
because
I
did
n't
really
kill
her
.
That
's
right
,
I
did
n't
.
Yet
his
skin
blue
and
the
lids
of
his
eyes
red
and
puffy
and
his
hands
trembling
slightly
in
spite
of
himself
.
And
Jephson
,
his
long
,
tensile
and
dynamic
body
like
that
of
a
swaying
birch
,
turning
toward
him
and
looking
fixedly
into
Clyde
's
brown
eyes
with
his
blue
ones
,
beginning
:
"
Now
,
Clyde
,
the
first
thing
we
want
to
do
is
make
sure
that
the
jury
and
every
one
else
hears
our
questions
and
answers
.
And
next
,
when
you
're
all
set
,
you
're
going
to
begin
with
your
life
as
you
remember
it
--
where
you
were
born
,
where
you
came
from
,
what
your
father
did
and
your
mother
,
too
,
and
finally
,
what
you
did
and
why
,
from
the
time
you
went
to
work
until
now
.
I
may
interrupt
you
with
a
few
questions
now
and
then
,
but
in
the
main
I
'm
going
to
let
you
tell
it
,
because
I
know
you
can
tell
it
better
than
any
one
"
Yet
in
order
to
reassure
Clyde
and
to
make
him
know
each
moment
that
he
was
there
--
a
wall
,
a
bulwark
,
between
him
and
the
eager
,
straining
,
unbelieving
and
hating
crowd
--
he
now
drew
nearer
,
at
times
so
close
as
to
put
one
foot
on
the
witness
stand
,
or
if
not
that
to
lean
forward
and
lay
a
hand
on
the
arm
of
the
chair
in
which
Clyde
sat
.
And
all
the
while
saying
,
"
Yay-uss
--
Yay-uss
.
"
"
And
then
what
?
"
"
And
then
?
"
And
invariably
at
the
strong
and
tonic
or
protective
sound
of
his
voice
Clyde
stirring
as
with
a
bolstering
force
and
finding
himself
able
,
and
without
shaking
or
quavering
,
to
tell
the
short
but
straitened
story
of
his
youth
.
"
I
was
born
in
Grand
Rapids
,
Michigan
.
My
parents
were
conducting
a
mission
there
at
that
time
and
used
to
hold
open
air
meetings
...
"
Clyde
's
testimony
proceeded
to
the
point
where
the
family
had
removed
from
Quincy
,
Illinois
(
a
place
resorted
to
on
account
of
some
Salvation
Army
work
offered
his
father
and
mother
)
,
to
Kansas
City
,
where
from
his
twelfth
to
his
fifteenth
year
he
had
browsed
about
trying
to
find
something
to
do
while
still
resenting
the
combination
of
school
and
religious
work
expected
of
him
.
"
Were
you
up
with
your
classes
in
the
public
schools
?
"
"
No
,
sir
.
We
had
moved
too
much
.
"
"
In
what
grade
were
you
when
you
were
twelve
years
old
?
"
