Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1907-07-03

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the latter being pimply faced young
man Qately from the doctors hands,,
who limped and would limp for the
rest of his life, he who, of all men,
held the memory Of Eskew Arp in
least respect and was burningly de-
sirous to revenge himself upon the liv-
ing.
The worst were of that mystifying.
embryonic, semi-rowdy type. the Amer
lean voyou, in the production of which
Canaan and her sister towns every
where over the country are prolific
the young man, youth. boy perhaps.
creatures-of nameless age, whose
clothes are like those of Brakeman
out Of work, but who is not a-EFakc-
man in or out of work; wearing the
black soft hat tilted forward to shelter
-as counter does the contempt Of a
clerk-that expression which the face
does not dare wear quite in the open,
asserting the possession tf supreme Gu
pacity in wit, strength. dexterity and
amours; the dirty handkerchief under
the collar. the short black coat. al
ways double breasted; the eyelids
sooty, one cheek always bulged. the
forehead speckled, the lips cracked,
horrible teeth and the affectation Of
possessing secret information upon all
matters Of the universe, above all, the
instinct of finding the shortest way to
any scene Of official interest to the
policeman, fireman or ambulance sur
geon-a singular being. not profession
ally criminal. tough histrlonically
rather than really, full of its own
argot of brag, hysterical when crossed,
timid through great ignorance and
therefore dangerous. 1t furnishes not
the leaders, but the mass of mobs, and
1t springs up at times of crisis from
heaven knows where. You might have
driven through all the streets Of Ca
man week before the trial and have
seen four or five such fellows, but
from the day of its beginning the
square was full OF them, dingy shuttle
cocks batted up into view by the Toe
sin.
They kept the air whirrlng with their
noise. The news Of that sitting which
had caused the squire, Flitcroft and
Peter Bradbury to risk the courts dis
pleasure was greeted outside with loud
and vehement disfavor, and when, at
noon, the jurymen We're marshaled
out to cross the yard to the National
House for dinner large crowd fol-
lowed and surrounded them until they
reached the doors of the hotel. Don't
let Lawyer Louden bamboozle you!"
Hang hlm!" Tar and feathers fer
We eff We don't hang himw These We're
the mildest threats, and Joe Louden,
watching from an upper window of
the courthouse, observed with trou-
bled eye how certain of the jury shrank
from the pressure Of the throng, how
the cheeks of others showed sudden
pallor. Sometimes public sentiment"
has done evil things to those who have
not shared 1t, and Joe knew how rare q
thing is jury which dares to stand
square against town like Canaan
aroused.
The end Of that afternoons session
saw another point marked for the de-
fense. Joe had put the defendant on
the stand, and the little man had prov
ed an excellent witness. During his
life he had been many things-many
things disreputable; high standards
were not brightly illumined for him in
the beginning of the night march
which his life had been. He had been
a tramp, afterward petty gambler
but his great motive bad finally come
to be the intention to do what Joe told
him to do-that, and to keep Claudine
as straight as he could. In measure
these were the two things that had
brought him to the pass in which he
now stood, his loyalty to Joe and his
resentment of whatever tempered with
Claudine's straightness. He was sub
missive to the consequences; he was
still loyal. And now Joe asked him
to tell Just what happened" and
Happy obeyed with crystal clearness.
Throughout the long, tricky cross ex-
animation he continued to tell '.just
what happened" with a plaintive truth
fulness not to be initiated, and through
out 1t Joe guarded him from pitfalls
(for lawyers in their search after truth
are compelled by the exigencies of
their profession to make pitfalls even
for the honesD and gave him, by vari.
Gus devices, time to remember. though
not to think, and made the words
come right" in his mouth, so that be.
fore the sitting was over a disquieting
rumor ran through the waiting crowd In
the corridors, across the square and
over the town that the case was sure
~ going "Louden's way" This was
also the opinion Of looker-on IL
Canaan-a ferret faced counselor OF
corporations who, called to consulta
ton with the eminent Buckalew meph
ew Of the squirrel, had afterward spent
an hour in his company at the trial
ITS going that young fellow Louden'E
way" said the stranger. you say
he's shyster, but
"Well," admitted Buckalew, with
some reluctance, II don't mean that
exactly. I've got an old uncle who
seems lately to think he's a great
man,
"Ill take your uncle's word for It,
returned the other, smiling. II think
he'll 60 pretty far"
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