The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1916-07-13
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relief noated from Mary,s pale lips q
The words, and two little flames Of hope
j and exciteAsent leapt into her eyes.
1veh E4ngdon had seemed at times
% cherish vague doubts and had press
Cd her cruelty to try to remember
even hazily-the events that were q
blank to her; and in consequence the
words Of the great alienist were balm
to her aching heart and seemed In
truth q wondrous vindication.
Langdon, watching her In amazed
concern, saw her slender body shake
IKE q reed In q storm of emotion. and
reading in it not the breaking of the
icy letters Of immobile despair, but the
shattering Of wonderful self control.
fastened to her side, with an admoni-
tory and reassuring whisper of encour-
agement To his surprise she smiled
ct him through the unshed tears and
caught his hand for an instant In
feverish grip as she murmured tremu-
lousy,
there's nothing the matter, Phil. l
lam just hopeful.
II may have to cali you to the stand
for a little," he went on anxiously.
'Do you think you-you-will be able
to-"
''Why Of course" she answered. With
such Il surprised note in her voice that
Langdon was perforce reussured. and
turned his attention again towards DR.
Foster, who was flushing ailgri!y IN
der the badgering Of the prosecutor.
what you tell US Is very interest
ing" the latter was saying sarcastical
II. And so you followed the life of
the defendant. or let us say you traced
her life back year by year. And did
you decide which event was the direct
cause OF her-er-peculiar mental
breakLownsY'
II did"
"What was it?''
"Her fathers. brutality on the night
she fed from the house in wild terror
Miss Page had suffered from her horror
of alcohol from II baby
.'Thcn It was her fathers treatment,
rather than his intoxicated condition
that drove her insane?' persisted the
prosecutor; but DR.. Foster saw the
drift Of the question and shook his
head emphatically.
1T was not. It was the sight Of his
intoNication. and the reek of the whis
key on his breath. The pain Of his
brutal grip OH her shoulder. and the
sight of his ill-treatment of her mother
naturally had their effect-but they
were not the main causes Of her de
hrium."
How do you know that MIR. Page
grippel her Shoulder brutaliy? Isn't
that merely hcarsay evilcnce?'
mo. The marks OF the hand We're
plainly visible On the shoulder of Miss
Page when she was brought to me
These heavy bruises overlay a curious
birthmark that came and went. and the
nails of III Pages hand had dug suci,
furrows into the flesh that the scars
still remain"
II have here copy OF this morn
ings News which has ln article in il
entitled, what is depressed Psyche
sisT by Dr. Foster. Is that your bro
chu.c?''
..t is
I'm it you say. The cruel grip Of
Mary PagGs drunken father left it's
mark indelibly upon her shoulder. for
under the stress of intense excitement
that mark reappears.' Is that hearsay
or have You seen it?"
II have seen it."
With sheer that brought hot flush
Of anger surging into the doctors face.
the prosecutor turned and handed the
paper that he held to the foreman Of
the jury saying slurringly:
Gentlemen Of the jury, in this news
paper which offer as an exhibit for
the state, you will find long article
by the learned witness, which is pal.
pably an effort to rouse cheap sympa-
thy for the prisoner. In it he says
substantially what he has said in court,