Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-04-02
Continued from Yesterday

CONTINUED from Yesterday
But at last the end was in sight!
! If Moxlow had the brains he credited
him with, North would be convicted
the law satisfied, and his case cease
| to be of vital interest to any one.
| Then of sudden his fears would go
| from him, he would be born afresh
into a heritage of new hopes and new
aspirations! He had suffered to the
very limit of his capacity; there was
such thing as expiation, and surely
| he had expiated his crime.
Now Moxlow, lank and awkward,
with long black locks sweeping the
collar of his rusty coat, slipped from
his chair and stood before the judge
desk. For an instant Langham'
glance shifted from his father to the
accused man. He felt intense natred
| of him; to his warped and twisted
consciousness, half mad as he was
with drink and drugs, North's life
seemed the one thing that stood be-
tween himself and safety, and clear
| ly North had forfeited the right to
| livel
When Moxlows even tones fell on
the expectant hush, Langham writned
in his seat Each word, he felt had
/ dreadful significance; the big linen
| handkerchief went back and forth
across his face as he sought to mop
away the sweat that oozed from
every pore. He had gone as deep in
the prosecutors eounsels as he dared
go. he knew the mans power OF IN
| \ 4. Ella = la MN force
in argument he wanted him TO cur
loose and overwhelm North all in a
breath. The blood in him leaped and
tingled with suppressed excitement
his twitching lips shaped themselves
with Moxlow's words. He felt that
Moxlow was letting his opportunity
pass him by, that after all he was
not equal to the task before him,
that il was one thing to plan and
1 quite another to perform. Men, suon
a S those jurors, must be powerfully
moved or they would shrink from a
verdict of guilty!
But MoXlow persevered in his level
tones, he was not to be hurried He
felt the case as good as won, and
there was the taste of triumph In his
mouth, for he was going to convict
his man IN spite OF the pes' eiiniii'si
lawyer in the state! fel presently
the level tones became nnore any
more lhclsiVe, anu MoN,oM "ou.u
walk toward Noren, nus ions nnsei
extended, to loose a perfect storm or
| words that cut and stung and insult
ed. He went deep into North's past.
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ana oonedence In his manner and
s,oo,, tha 1ingv court room was echo
ing ~ the strident tones of the old
criminal LAWYERS voice As the min
utes nassed. however. il became a
certainty with North that no miracle
wonld happen.
Belknap concluded his plea shortly
before o'clock. And this was the
end-this was the last move in the
game where his life was the stake,
In spite of his exhaustion of mind
and bodv North had followed the
speech with the closest attention. He
told himself now that the States
case was unshaken that the facts,
stubborn and damning, were not to
be brushed aside.
Moxlow's answer to Belknap's plea
was brief occupying little more than