New Britain herald., 1916-03-14
EPISODE VIII.

"I think" said his Honor, the ghost of a smile still twitching at his lips that the witness may go on with her story. But" he added, leaning for ward with an admonishing gesture towards Amy, you must remember, Miss Barton, that you are here not to amuse us but to answer as briefly as possible the questions put to you by counsel for the defence
 I'm sorry, your Honor" she said penitently, but it was fun up there for a while"
 ''I don't doubt it," said the judge, smiling. Then, as if recollecting where he was, he cleared his throat loudly and sat back with a stern frown as Langdon said.
 How long did you remain at the hotel in Prindleville as a waitress?"
 About three weeks.'
 Did MT. Pollock remain there dur ing that time?''
 'Yes.'
 Did he speak to you at any time? ?"
 Well, he had to speak to me, but he limited it to, Two boiled eggs and dry toast, or 'Gimme roast chicken and mashed potatoes but with Mary it was different. He didn't speak to her, but he never let her get out of his sight" ..
 Miss Barton, you say that you re- mained at the hotel about three weeks. Why did you leave at the end of that time?"
 Because of the behavior of some of the men who came to the place..
 What do you mean by their behav- ior?"
 ''Their-their-fresh she said. flushing little. You see, when we first went to work, they were all very decent, especially to Mary, and every thing was fine. Then they-thev seemed to change even to me. I had to give a pretty sharp call-down to two or three of the sort of rubes that wear red ties. and shoes that look as if they had their trunk tucked in the toe, and finally something the land lady said put me wise to the fact that our characters weren't worth a two cent stamp in Prindleville. I didn't want Mary to know, so I kept quiet till the day when the guy that al- ways came for lunch got fresh and tried to kiss her.
 Will you tell us, as briefly as pos slble, Miss Barton, the events of that day?"
 "It was a bad day to begin with" said Amy rueful1y. 1T smashed some crockery in the morning, and the head waitress had had a quarrel with her beau the night before and everybody had beautiful grouch, and in the midst of it the landlady came out to me, and told me that her regular girls were objecting to work with us, because of our bad characters. Of course it made me pretty sore, and I was just going to say a few things about the bunch of biscuit-slingers they had around, when the door of the dining-room banged open and Mary taking her apron off as she went ran past us and up the stairs. The land | lady called her, but she never even looked around, so I started after her Just as I did so @ cheap, fashy guy who was regular boarder came out of the diningroom, looking sheepish and with one cheek bright red and | the other very pale. I've seen a good smack make that kind of complexion before, so I kind of waited around to ] see what he would do.''
 Did he leave the hotel" NO. He walked out into the office and across to where Dave Pollock was sitting and flung himself into chair | beside him. At that I sort of got be-
 hind some curtains and waited to hear
 what he said, but I needn't have both | cred about hiding, for he yelped loud
 enough to be heard all the way to the | kitchen"
 Gan you tell us what he said 2"
 "Yes. He ripped out a good rount
 damn or two; then he said, Say, lool