Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-03-06
CHAPTER XXIII.

TROM within the glossy old wal. L. nut bar that ran from wall to
 wall the eyes of the lawyers A and reporters wandered often to Ariel as she sat in the packed court room watching Louden's fight for the life and liberty of Happy Fear. She had always three escorts, and, though she did not miss a session and the same three never failed to attend her, no whisper of scandal arose. But not upon them did the glances of the mem. bers of the bar and the journalists with tender frequency finger, nor were the younger members of these two pro. fessions all who gazed that way. Joe had fought out the selection of the jury with the prosecutor at great length and with infinite pains. It was not a young jury. and 1t stared at her.
 The court" wore gray beard with which flock of sparrows might have villaged g grove. and yet in spite of the vital necessity for watchfulness over this fighting case, 1t once needed 10 be stirred from trancelike gaze In Miss Tabor's direction and aroused to the realization that it was there to "sl." and not to dream.
 The August air was warm outside the windows, inviting to the open country, to swimmin' hole, to orchard reveries or shaded pool wherein to drsp meditative line. You would have thought no one could willingly coop himself in this hot room for three hours twice day while lawyers wrangled, often unintelligibly, over the life of a dingy little creature like Happy Fear. yet the struggle to swell ter there was almost like a riot, and the bailiffs were busy men.
 It was a fighting case throughout, fought to a finish on each tiny point as it came up. dragging. iE the mere matter of time, interminably. yet the people of Canaan mot only those who succeeded in penetrating to the court room. but the others. who hung about the corridors or outside the building, and the great mass ot stay at homes. who read the story in ;i.c Tocsin) found each moment of 1t enthralling enough. The states attorney, fearful of losing so notorious case and not underestimating his opponent. had modestly summoned others to his aid, and the attorney for the defense sin gle handed faced "an array of legal talent such as seldom indeed had hoi- lered at this bar.- faced it good na- turcdly. an eyebrow crooked up and his head on one side most of the time. yet faced i; indomitably. He had a certain careless and disarming smile when he lost a point. which carried of the defeat as of only humorous account and not at all part of the se- rious business in hand. and in his treatment of witnesses he was plausi- ble. kindly. knowing that in this case he had no intending perjurer to en- trap: brought into play the rare and delicate art of which lc was a master. employing in his questions subtle sug- restions and shadings of tone and manner and avoiding words of debat- able and dangerous meanings-a fine craft. often attempted by blunderers to their own undoing. but which. prac- ticed by Joseph Louden. made inartic- ulate witnesses articulate to the pre- else effects which he desired This he accomplished as much by the help of the continuous fire of objections from the other side as in spite of them. He was infinitely careful. asking never an III advised question for the other side to use 10 his hurt and. though e1- hibitinz only a pleasant easiness of manner vas electrically alert
 A hundred things had shown ArieI that the feeling of the place. influenced by -PabIsc sentiment vithcut vas