The Marshall republican., 1909-06-04


Ny Sir Peter and Lady Hawkshaw, l
produced a coed effect. But when
4 WINS asked by the other side II / had
ever seen. or II Giles had v claimed,
any Willingness on Lady Arabella's
part to 20 Off with him, I broke down
mfseraBly. My testimony did Giles
little good, II fear.
Sir Peter Hawkshaw was the next
witness. 1T was plain from the start
that he desired to help Giles, and like
wise chat he knew very little Of the
affair until IT was all over. But he
proved a most entertaining, II dis
cursive witness.
Sir Peter evidently thought the wit
nesBibox was his own quarterback,
and he proceeded TO harangue the
court I'm his hest manner as a nag Of
S1cer. He talked of everything except
the case; he gave a most animated de-
scraptfon OF the hight between the Ajax
ON nj side and the incompatible and
Xantippe On the other. praising Giles
vernon's gailantry AT every turn. He
also aired his views on the subject of
thC khhILlGl bhtItb 1uIhthhCu ~ Nho
navy, alleging that some rescally con-
tractors ought to be hanged at the
yardarm for the quality supplied; and
wound up by declaring, with great gus.
TO, that II an officer In his majesty's
service desired ito marry a young lady
Il was an act of spirit to carry her
on, and for mis- part, fellows of that
sort were the kind he should select to
lead a boarding party. while the sneak
ing. I~aw-abiding fellows should be I'M
der the matches when the ship was
cleared for action.
Sir Peters rambling hut vigorous
talk was not without its effect, upon
which I think ne had shrewdly calcu-
lated. In vain counsel for the crown
tried to check him; Sir Peter bawled
at them to pipe down, and remarked
aloud Of the senior counsel who had
been most active in trying to suppress
him:
"That lawyer fellow Is three sheets
in the wind, with the other one a
ilapping!"
The judges, out Of respect to him.
made no great effort to subdue him,
and he had the satisfaction of telling
his story his own way. When the prose
cution took him in hand, they found.
though, that he could very we'll keep
to the subject matter, and they did not
succeed in getting anything of the
slightest consequence out OF him.
When he stepped down, / saw that he
had in reality done much more good
TO Giles cause than / had, although
ne knew little about the facts, and ]
knew all.
Then came Lady Hawkshaw's tes'
timony. Sir Peters was not a patch
on 1T. Like him, she really had no
material evidence to give, but, with a
shrewdness equal to his, she made a
very good plea for the prisoner. She
began with a circumstantial account OF
her marriage to Sir Peter. in
which the opposition of her family was
painted in lurid liues. In vain was she
again and again checked; she managed
to tell her tale against the vigorous OBJ
jections OF the prosecutors, and the
somewhat feeble and pe~rfunctory re-
Dukes from the bench. The jury, how
ever. were plainly SO interested in It
that no serious attempt was made "a
stop her-not that It would have
ayailed anything. for Lady Hawkshaw
"a not used to stopping for any one
mo doubt my family could have
bounded Sir Peter for marrying me-
she announced In the beginning, "bu'
my family, your honors, 10 an honor
able one, and would not condescend
to nasty tricks like" Here she fixed
her great black eyes on Sir Thomas
Vernon. who smiled blandly and took
snuff.
And as for a man expecting opposi
tion In q girl he IS willing to marry
ask your houors, does q man exisI
who can believe. until " IN proved