The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-09-09

get his treatment of the prim, priggish,
composed. bandboxical Houston? Com
posed, | mean, until Mr.. Houston be-
came demoralized by the merriment caus-
edsby his own, admissions in answer to
abrupt little questions delivered in sort
of confidential undertone, curiously at va
Tiance with the sudden, searching gaze
that accompanied them. After eleven
years l can see Mr.. Houston, in the i1esh
as it We're coming niSerably to grief in
that eross-examination about the black
bag in which Pigott and his alleged con-
federates brought the ParneH letters To
their purchaser in the Hotel des Deux
Mondes, Avenue de POpera, Paris.
DAINTY HOUSTON IN A MESH.
I can hear the laughter in the packed
court-laughter promptly suppressed by
the usher-while Mr.. Houston told no"
he waited upstairs while the bargain
5tairs'' and how he refrained from gong
downstairs" OF seeing who was there
or taking any part whatever in the bar
acknowledgements said Mr.. Houston. L
wished to keep myself aloof; wanted to
keep myself n ignorance of the source OF
the letters 1 can hear Sr Charles
walls. quietly, encouragingly as 1t We're.
while the smart Mr. Houston was laying
bare his own extreme simpiicity-,or
worse. Sir Charles looked at the ceiling,
sort of way. He unpockets MS snuII-
box He taps the lid. With his right
thumb he helps himself to a pinch. You
didn't go downstairs he asks quite cas-
ually Mo- The snuffy brown hand
kerchief half way up to Sir Charles nose
stops. The keen eyes look Mr. Houston ! n
through and through. Mo-? NO
Laughter-and furious rebuke in the ush-
er's eyes.
At 1:S0 on the following day Sir Rich
ard Webster'S examination Of Richard
laklfA
Richard sat him down Sir Charles was
up The loud murmur of talk that broke
out after Pigotts evidence" came to a
dead stop. You could hear a pin fall as
Russell and Pigott stood there confront
ing each other Take that'-the words
rang out sharply in the eathless silence.
That was sheet of paper which Sir
Charles Russell held out Pigott took it
gazing the while at Sir Charles in blank
bepuzzi enent Everybody in court
glanced at every other.
SPELLED IT ''HEsITENCY. AGAIN
"He has him." barrister whispered
turning around TO me. Write down live
libood, likelihood your own name pros
elytisn.' Patrick [gan' and his initials
and 'hesitancy' " Which Pigott did srnil-
ing the while. foolishly, and with a flush
one of the forged letters Pigott had spell,
ed the last word ',hesitency. 1t has
often been said since. and by experienced
members of the bar, that Sir Charles
initial tactics We're a mistake. Was il
not probable that Pigott, warned by The
early discussions along the horgeFies
would have taken care to spell the WORD
right? Pigott might have done it. Blu
he didn't. Sir Charles Russell had taker
stock Of his man and considered the eff
feet Of surprise. The subject suggests
a military analogy. BY 1.-The rules OF
war. Wellington. say the military critics
ought to have been beaten at Water
loo. But he wasn't-and there's an enc
ont An ordinary advocate would no
have started with Take that" Sil
Charles was not an ordinary advocate
he was an advocate of genius. and tha-
first shot of his was decisive. 1 can Sec