trial concluded do not know how much the gentle reader may feel in bud with me he is a favorite and i venture to hope that there are some among my readers who will wish the of his actions explained the first dash of disappointment had well nigh upset him and when a man to throw overboard his good resolutions he always seeks to avoid the witness of those resolutions hence bud after that tuesday evening on which miss had given him the sack wished to see less than any one else and yet when he came to suspect small s his whole nature at it but having broken with he thought it best to maintain an attitude of apparent hostility that he might act as a and perhaps save his friend from the mischief that threatened him as soon as he heard of s arrest he determined to make the walter johnson tell his own secret in court because he knew that it would be best for that walter should tell it bud s telling at second hand would not be and he sincerely desired to save walter from prison for walter johnson was the victim of dr small or of dr small and such novels as the s bride the wild of the west indies and the cheap of such men as small found him with his imagination by the history of such heroes and opened to him the path to glory for which he longed the whole morning after s arrest bud was working on walter s conscience and his fears the poor fellow unable to act for himself was torn asunder between the old of small and the new of bud means bud finally frightened him by the fear of the into going to the place of trial but once inside the door and once in sight of small who was more to him than god or rather more to than the devil � for the devil was walter s god or perhaps i should say walter s god was a devil � once in sight of small he refused to move an inch farther and bud after all his perseverance was about to give up in sheer despair fortunately just at that moment small s desire to relieve himself from the taint of suspicion and to crush as completely as possible made him the mark by asking that walter be called to the stand as we have before he knew that he had no tool so as the cowardly walter in the very language of the request he had given walter an intimation of what he wanted him to swear to walter listened to small s words as to his doom he felt that he should die of the of a man of the school master stamp is to have to make up his mind such men generally fall back on some one more positive and take all their resolutions ready made but here walter must decide for himself for the was already calling his name the court the spectators and most of all dr small were waiting for him he moved forward mechanically through the dense crowd bud following part of the way to whisper tell the truth or go to walter shook and shivered at this the witness with difficulty held up his hand long enough to be please tell the court said whether you know anything of the whereabouts of dr small on the night of the robbery at peter s small had detected walter s agitation and taking alarm had edged his way around so as to stand full in walter s sight and there with keen eye on the weak of the young man he was able to assume his old position and sway the fellow absolutely on the night of the robbery � walter s voice was weak but he seemed to be reading his answer out of small s eyes � on the night of the robbery dr small came home before here the witness stopped and shook and shivered again for bud the of small s gaze had pushed his great in front of small and had fastened his eyes on walter with a look that said tell the truth or go to i can t i can t o � k d what shall i do the witness exclaimed answering the look of bud for it seemed to him that bud had spoken to the people and the court this agitation was inexplicable e s wig got his eye turned in toward his nose and he had great difficulty m the trial concluded keeping his teeth from falling out the excitement became fully was on his feet looking at the witness and feeling that somehow bud and dr small � his good angel and his demon � were playing an awful game of which he was the stake the crowd swayed to and fro but remained utterly silent waiting to hear the least whisper from the witness who stood trembling a moment with his hands over his face and then fainted the fainting of a person in a crowd is a signal for everybody else to make fools of there was a rush toward the fainting man there was a cry for water everybody asked everybody else to open the window and everybody wished else to stand back and give him air but nobody opened the window and nobody stood back the only perfectly cool man in the room was small with a quiet air of professional authority he pushed forward and felt the patient s pulse remarking to the court that he thought it was a sudden attack of fever with delirium when walter revived dr small would have removed him but insisted that his testimony should be heard under of watching his patient small kept close to him and walter began the same old story about dr having arrived at the office before eleven 