Connecticut western news., 1916-05-25

relief fo2tc@l from Mary's pale lips st the words, aud two Httic flames of hope and excitement lCnpt into her eyes.
 Even I.angdan had seemed at times to cherish vague doubts and had press. ed her cruelty to try to remember even haZilY-thc events that were a blank to her; and in consequence the words of the great alicniSt were balm to her aching heart and seemed in truth wondrOuS vindication.
 Langdon watching hCr in amazed concern. saw her slender body shake like q reed in q storm of emotion, anl reading in it not the breaking of the icy letters of immobile despair. but the shatterinG of a wonderful self-control, haStcned to her side. with an admoni- tory and rcasSuring whisper of cncour- agement To his surprise she smiled at him through the unshed tears and caught his hand for an instant in a fevcrish grip as she murmured tremu. lOusly,
 "There'S nothing the matter. Phil lam just hopeful"
 "I may have to call you to the stan for little" he went on anXiously Do you think you-you-will he allie to-"
 "Why, of course" she answered. with such a surprised note in her voice that Langlon was perfOrce rcaSSurGl, and turned his attention aga.n towsMs Irr Foster, who was flushing angrily un der the badgerinG of the prosecutor.
 What you tell Us is very interest ing" the latter was saying SarcHstica! ly. And so you followed the life of the defendant, or let lis say you traced her life back year by year. And did you decide which event was the direct cause of her-er-peculiar mental breakdowns?'
 ''I 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 a baby"
 Then it was her fathers treatment rather than his intoxicated condition that drove her inSane?' persisted tho prosecutor; but Dr. Foster saw tho drift of the question and shook his head emphatically.
 Tt was not. IL was the sight of his intoXication. and the rCck of the whis key on his breath. The pain of his brutal grip on her shoulder, and the sight of his ill-trcatmcnt of her mother naturally had their cfrect-but the were not the main causes of her de l;rium."
 How do ycu know that Mir. Page stripped her shoulder brutally? ISI't that merely hcarSay evidcnce?"
 No. The marks of the hand were plainly visible on the shoulder of Mis-: Page when she was brought to mo These heavy bTU.&> $ 0vCrlay Il curiOu, birthmark that caI.!c and went, and tho nails uf Mir. Pages hand had dug sue. furrows into the flesh that the scars still remain"
 II have here a copy of this morn ing's News which has an article in i entitled, What is Repressed Psycho sis" by Dr. Foster. Is that your bro churc?"
 Tt is."
 "In it you say, The cruel grip oI Mary Pages drunken father left it, mark indcIibly upon her shoulder. fol under the stress of intense eXcitcmcn that mark rcappears.' Is that hcarsal or have you seen it:"
 ''I have seen it."
 With q snecr that brought a hot flusl of anger sur%ing into the doctors face the prosecutor turned and handed tho paper tEat he held to the foreman Ot the jury saying slurringly:
 "Gentlcmen of the jury, in this news paper which 1 offer as an exhibit fol the state, you will find a long article by the learned witness. which is pal pably an effort to rouse cheap sympa thy for the prisoner. In it he sHy. substantially what he has said in court