The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-05-15

I hand over your shoulder and her left hand on my head-would that aston ish you?"
 "If you tell me she is going to do 1t, the accuracy of your provision would astonish me-
 II think she's going to do it.'' e'T think she isn't, 'szHelenss ssbaater-
 e"But that, isn't. the game, r., { Jack ex- plafned; "you, too. must dramatize her doing it." And again he described
 the action. @ Helen felt an uncanny creeping of
 the flesh as Viola. before Jack had
 ceased speaking, laid aside her needle work and rose to her feet The girl | looked around uncertainty, crossed
 the room, and stood behind the sofa. Am I interrupting?" she asked.
 Not at all, my dear," Helen an- Viola put her right arm about Hell en's neck. There was a moments | pause; then she lifted her left hand head.
 Helen gasped. and was about to ex- claim, when Jack. with finger on his 1 lips, objured her to silence.
 The second trial of Clay Whipple began under more. intelligent rdirec- ton for the defence than the first
 trial had displayed, although con- ducted by the same attorneys A sus- ta1ned endeavor was made to secure a. jury of men of sufficient inagina- tion, if not. of sufficient information, to conceive the possibility of trans | nlitting a mental idiosyncrasy from 1 one generation to another.
 Hardmuth. because of his full n hn ha1 Cn0 cially appointed in. charge of the State. His attempts to get an unsym- pathetic and matter of-fact jury were ! as persistent as the efforts to the con- trary of the defence. The result was the selection of twelve men not all side, and from whom the defence anticipated at best but a disagree ment.
 |The greater publicity. that the elapsed interval had contributed to the case, together with the closer at tention that both sides had given to the selection of the jury, had pro- longed that part of the proceedings. The days so occupied were not alto gether unhappy ones for the women who loved the defendant. They were with him now in surroundings less depressing than those in the jail. They were in the presence and in the company of men of intelligence, the majority of whom were sympatnizers, and the strongest and best of whom were advocates of their cause.
 l Moreover. the mere machinery of the law no longer terrified the wo- men related to the prisoner. Their interest, of course, made them un- reliable judges of the value of any
 bit of testimony; their fears exag- Eeratedf the menace; their sympathies
 distorted favorable utterances; but they had consoling realization that much of the proceedings was in their favor. The presence of Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States among the witnesses for the defence gave dignity to that side, and at once lifted itS principal from tEe condition and color of @ malefactor at bay, endeavorfng to escape the just penalty of the law, to the position of an unfortunate prisoner presuma ply innocent and whom to prove guilty was the task of the State @ s That portion of the South that lies east; of the Mississippi has rever- ence for lineage that is unknown else where in America, with perhaps the exception of Boston. Through the other fields of the nation the current of life has flowed with sWiftness and freedom that have made atten-' ton 10 pedigree a retarding and un- profitable Aggression from the general III, however, the movement has been TO- tary rather than progressive. In the Southland especially 1t is impossible to be widely introduced without meet ing, somebody cousin to the sponsor. Family connection is a weighty con- sideration. Parents of distinction are computable assets even when dead Notable grandparents compound in value of almost geometrical increase. That the prisoners maternal grand mother had been a sweetheart of man since advanced to the supreme bench was a recommendation of con- siderable import to several members of the jury. That his singular aver sion to the cat's-eye had been also hers, and that the grave and difnified and distinguished legal gentleman be- fore them had fought a duel shielding that sensitiveness in lady from a rude and stupid approach not unlike that from which the prisoner had de- tended himself, was of tremendous weight.
 Hardmuth brought all his batteries to bear upon this witness. He put into play every art and trick and re- source that his intelligence and his forts were not entirely intellectual with the jury.
 During this second trial, except when test1fying or advising with the attorneys. Brookfield was noticeable for his absence from the courtroom There were those who attributed this to his possible belief that the friend ship of an ex-gambler would not be helpful to the accused. Had this been BrOOkf1eld's opinion it would not have been we'll founded. As a gambler his reputation had been that of a square one. and in all contests, whether in sporting, financial, or political circles, Jack Brookfield was known as a con- sistent advocate of fair play. Fur thermore, in the year and a quarter that had passed since the killing of Denning, Brookfield, had taken an in- creasing interest in politics. His wide acquaintance, his personal magnetism, and his ample means had made of him factor of influence and conse- quent power. There was more than one man on the jury to whom the friendship of Brookfield might be valuable.
 Brookfield's absence from the court room was due to an incident of which ne had made no report to any one. Near the finish Of his own testimony he had chanced to glance along the double row of faces in the jury-box The glance had been casual. enough in the beginning, but as it encounter ed the gaze of one of the men Bfook- field had felt an involuntary arrest of his attention. A like happening has come to every one at some time. Eyes confront eyes with inexplicable re- cognition-the vis-a-vis is stranger. and there is on either side no Ques- t1on: or that fact, yet the gaze of both n HE IvN yH