The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1909-07-16

sis Pster's rambling but vfosrous
talk was not without its eject. upon
which / think he had shrewdly sslcu.
lated. In vain counsel fnr the crown
tried to check him; Sir Peter hasled
al them TO pipe down. and remarked
! aloud of the senior counsel who had
been most active il trying to suppress
MIN:
That lawyer fellow is three sheets
in the wind. with the other uue d
tapping"
The judges. out Of respect to hun
made NO great effort to subdue hin
and he had the satisfaction Of falling
his story his own way. When the prOse-
cution took him in hand. they found
though. that he could very yell keep
10 the subject matter. and they did not
succeed in getting anything Of the
slightest consequence Out Of him
When he stepped down. j saw that he
had in reality done much more good
TO Giles cause than ] had. aithougn
he knew little about the facts, and l
| knew all
Then came Lady Hawkshaw's tes-
timOny. Sir Peters WAS not q patch
on it. Like him she really had NO
material evidence to give, but. with q
shrewdness equal to his. she made q
very good plea for the prisoner. She
began with Q circumstantial account Of
her own marriage to Sir Peter, in
which tho opnnrit ,n, ~ hSr fa,,,tl. -,
painted in lurid hues In vain was she
again and again checked; she managed
10 tell her tale against the vigorous oh.
jections Of the prosecutors. and the
somewhat feeble and perfunctory re-
Dukes from the bench. The jury. how
ever. were plainly SO interested In it,
that no serious attempt Vas made 10
stop her-not that it would have
svalled anything. for Lady Hawkshsw
was not used to stopping for any one.
No doubt my family could have
bounded Sir Peter for marrying me 4"
she announced in the beginning, but
my family. your honors, is 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
snuH
And ~ for . man expecting opposi-
tion in q girl he is willing to marry.
! ask your h0nors. does Q man exist
who can believe, until it Is proved
to him beyond cavil, that there il q
woman alive who would not jump for
Joy to marry him."
This produced SO much laughter that
the baili6s had to enforce order in the
hall.
Lady Hawkshaw then. with great
ingenuity, referred to Sir Thomas Yer
non, who. in those days. 40 years ago.
was not called Wicked Sir Thomas,
but plain Lying Tom vernon!'"
This produced regular uproar
during which Lady Hawkshaw, with
great complacency. famed herself
After . warning from the presiding
justice to keep to the matter in hand.
she curtsied deeply to him. and i'm
mediately resumed her account of Sir
Thomas Vernon, in which she told Of q
certain occasion, in the time Of the
American war. when. as the royal
family was passing to chapel at Wind
sor. hisses were heard, the king having
declined to receive him at the levee
on account Of his notoriously bad char
acter. And Sir Thomas, being thrust
out. was taken by some Of the inhabi-
taats of Windsor and ducked in q
neighboring horse-pond. At this point,
the judge himself courteously but firm
ly interrupted Lady Hawkshaw, and in
formed her that she could not be per-
mitted to go on in that strain.
Il shall observe your lordships eau
ton" she replied. politely, and straight
way launched into a description CT Sir
Thomas appearance when he emerged
from the orse-pond, which brought q
smile to every face in court-including
even the tudge's-except the victim
himself, who bit his lip and scowled in
fury.
The judges afterward said that Lady
Hawkshaw proved to be the most un-
manageable witness any and all OF
them had ever encountered; for in
SpAtE III lACIy DIG gave
stantial account Of every nisdeed Sir
Thomas Vernon had ever been guilty
Of in his life, as far as she knew
The crown lawyers. very wisely, de-
clined to cross-examine this witness.
When she stepped down out Of the wit
ness-box and took Sir Peters arm, she
passed close to the presiding justice,
who happened to have his snun-box
open in his hand. Ny lady deliberately
| stopped and took pinch out Of the
judges box. remarking, suave:y:
Your lordship shows excellent taste
| in preferring the SPANISH"
| ] thought his lordship would drop
out Of his chair.
CTO BE CONTINu~D)
ENGLISH IDEA OF THE WEST.
Girl Really Knew as Much About II
a. Many Of Her Countrymen.