The Morning herald., 1877-08-01

Nv vuoosaon VI . jury, lOf ON sur,
shall be able to prove to you my perfec
Il trust SO; but may remind you The
orce before. q fit Of passion on your psrl
led you into polce-court." 80
-'Indeedp'
"Yes; You recall so severely beating q
smnn. an adversary, that he was quite dis
abled for aome time" -
True. Sir; but let me add that 1t waa
felt l had been cruelty provoked, and that
] had not intended to do 60 much injury
as ! really accomplished" .,,. ~
9 fIt was reported, at tho time, that Won
LIVED very fevered life" w ~ :
I'VE most Of us do. at twenty years Of
aae." 4,a Ist.,r - : 7Tr-
TT was also said. at that time, you wers
very passionate" oI'p-". ~.
THAT ts quite true. Unhappily for nv.
self. have never been able to overcome
my naturally hot temper; my anger car
ries me away before am aware that I am
under Its inflnence."2 @'i1~a Z !,
fYou do not, then. hesitate to make this
admission, although you must know that
it would most seriously damage your case
were you on your trialT' - .4.. ~
u do not hesitate to admit this, simply
because It ~ the plain and absolute truth,
/ am fery-tempered man-all my friends
know me to bo this-aud it would be use
less to deDyit,
The magistrate became silent. 80 much
cajmDess and naturalness in the man with
whom he was conversiug on question Of
life aud death astounded him, althouph
dufing his long career he had done the bat
tie of words with many clever hypocrite,
with numberless comedians. But here be
found himself face to face with new and
totally original character. The man he
was halt-tnterrogating, appeared to look
upon candor-thst quality least affected
by the guil.y-as his best resource. So far
from hiding his bad points, his question:
able acts, he openly avowed them, with
out, audacity, but equally without fear.
So far from trying to make himself appear
better than he was, he seemed to be will
ing to admit more than was ever required
Of him. -0"t. -.
"Either this man L. innocent" thought
the ma agistrate, "or Nature has provided
him with energy and intelligence in no
ordinary degree" -, .lI
"And against you there ts not only the
affair Of the assault. but something else to
which you have not etreferred." he went
Oh.
"True; and have not yet referred to -
because almost Immediately after my on
trance you requested me to wait for ques-
tions being asked me, and not to put them
myself" gHH"
'"irue> Then may I ask you how 1t hap
pened that you came somewhat recently
to be mixed up In certain gambling trans
actions over cards, at your clubf"
"lwas,no doubt, mixed up in that trans
action. A young gentleman from the
country. introduced to my club, himself
to play for high stakes He was
rather ehied at, at first but he was 50 we'll
he seemed desirous of play,
ing, ard he appeared to have so much
money, that some Of us were tempted into
playing with him. He was not clever.
md still be persisted in playing. Finally,
he lost over two thousand pounds. and be-
ing enable to pay the money. as an alter
ma i've he declared that cheating had been
going on. This Kind Of thing happeus ut
the clubs more than once or twice in the
course of season. A man is bad player,
and is too proud to admit he is not good
hand at cards, and prefers to charge bis
fellow players with loguery rather than
himself with ignorance. BY these means
ho may get kicked, but he justifes the
of his debts of honor; and
society In. general, out Of tho club, look
upon him rather as victim than SLAM
derer. In the particular case you referto
l was one of SIX or eight gentlemen &C.
cused by tho young man Of choating-an
accusation be made in letter to the club
committee The committee examined the
ofiair, and the result of all was this-that
tho Young man made an apology, and ul-
timately paid the money he had lost"
But by what means could you possibly
know ! should ask for these questionsp
because / had no doubt that where
man has the police about him. every ap-
parent black point In his character Is
picked out with dead certainty. The af-
fair Of the assault was notorious; and. as
rnr the card case. although 1t never be-
came public, ii was much talked about;
and oven now tits scandal which has
scarcely died out"
Austin Slvory spoke with so much ease
In coolness. bis voice was so sympathetic,
md he sat In his chair with so much self
possrsstou that he appeared rather to be
making mere morHing call, than giving
! magistrate such private examination
II his conduct as should prevent his beng
arrested .oud publicly examined upon o
,harge of murder. ..
So far, no movement or sound had be-
lraved the listening presence of Margaret
Mayter. As she promised, she performed.
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