The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-05-14

might have entered with an. experi
 ence which paralleled sthat of thej | client, and that the recital of sucf similar history might have weighed
 isn the jury, The contention that th' constitutional guarantee of a puhH'
 trial had back. of it a belief in th' probability. or possibility of such for tuitous testimony was patheticall. hopeless, but it was a straw, and the. were drowning.
 ,Brookfield saw in the appeal noth ing but delay, yet to, Helen he argued place some hope in his own acQuaint ance with Justice Prentice, member 1 of the Court. Helen,a like most wo men, was too uninformed concerning the integrity and the incorruptibl, 1 impartiality of that august body tt
 see. as Brookfield knew. the futility or rather the fatality, of any attemp ito influence one of it's members. Ye to buoy her failing. hope he urged the value of this acQuaintance-ht also showed her. the letter recently received from Justice Prentice.
 Helen's memory, stimulated by tht sight of this letter, recalled anothe, identified the writer of. both as one of whom she had heard her mother speak.
 This Justice Prentice-was he. too
 Kentuckian ?"
 ''Yes." .
 Helen at once set about finding such letters or papers as might establish
 the friendship between the families or might point to other like avenues of influence. Her. mothers effects
 were. in the possession of another
 daughter older than Helen, who liveS
 with her. husband now removed to
 the Ozark country.
 f< H@l. %~- H. l
 employ her mind and give her a
 change of scene than because her
 personal attention to the duty was re- Quired, or that any. profit might come
 of it. Brookfieid advised her to go to her sisters home and to make the search of her mothers papers her self.
 Lew Ellinger went with her.
 After Helens departure the duty of the daily visit to Clay devolved prin- cipally upon Viola, who had as com pany her mother, or as escort her uncle Jack or Dr.. Monroe. These visits to Clay in jail were always in the presence and hearing of a. guard, and With iron bars between Viola and Clay. No contact, even of finger tips, was permitted between her and him. for in such slight communica- tion might be conveyed drop of poison that would rob great com mon-wealth of it's revenge. Notwith- standing these hard restrictions, Clay was cheered by the visits not more through viola's hope for. him and her confidence in his ultimate acquittal than he was by a strange. sense of nearness to Brookfield and of his pro- lection. On one occasion Viola fn- quired if at a. certain. hour of. the night previous Clay had not called the guard to the grating in his cell and asked for 8 blanket. Clay looked quickly at the guard then on duty to whom, in- fact, the request had been made, The guards wonder at the qlestfon. was aA-&reat aSy Clay's. Viola, exclaimed F. that she ' had no knowledge of the fact herself. but asked the Question at Uncle Jacks reduest. Another and a similar ques- ton at later date verifying another experiment of Brookheld's only. serv- ed to increase the watchfulness of the officials. It was evident to them that some underhand. work was being at tempted in the jail.
 Brookfield's inquiries ceased, but the short maps which Jo took in his masters library continued in order that 'Marse Jack" might make Jo more and more immune to every hoo doc in the world.
 Helen and Ellinger returned. Both had beer successful. Helen had found ed, and Lew had found game in Springfield from which he had won enough not only to. pay expenses both ways, but to cover his seemingly in- applicable losses to Helen's brother in-law, whose guests he and Helen had been, and who had developed an increasing fondness for seven-up dur ig the visit. Lew admitted to Jack that these losses to the brother-in- law amounted to very little more than board and lodging would have footed had he and Helen invited comment by staying at the hotel Jacks ausl terity during the circumspect phrase of this. confidence only aggravated a slight bronchial irritation of Filing er's and increased Lew's anxiety con cerning the adjustment of his bou- tonniere. -/s