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CHAPTER XXVII.

THE TRIAL.

Edith Hudson spent a restless night, and early in the morning, as early as she thought she could reach him, she called the office of Jimmy's attorney. She told the lawyer that some new evidence was to have been brought in to him and asked if he had received it. Receiving a negative reply she asked that she be called the moment it was brought in.

All that day and the next she waited, scarcely leaving her room for fear that the call might come while she was away. The days ran into weeks and still there was no word from the Lizard.

Jimmy was brought to trial, and she saw him daily in the courtroom and as often as they would let her she would visit him in jail. On several occasions she met Harriet Holden, also visiting him, and she saw that the other young woman was as constant an attendant at court as she.

The State had established as unassailable a case as might be built on circumstantial evidence. Krovac had testified that Torrance had made threats against Compton in his presence, and there was no way in which Jimmy's attorneys could refute the perjured statement. Jimmy himself had come to realize that his attorney was fighting now for his life, that the verdict of the jury was already a foregone conclusion and that the only thing left to fight for now was the question of the penalty.

Daily he saw in the court-room the faces of the three girls who had entered so strangely into his life. He noticed, with not a little sorrow and regret, that Elizabeth Compton and Harriet Holden always sat apart and that they no longer spoke. He saw the effect of the strain of the long trial on Edith Hudson. She looked wan and worried, and then finally she was not in court one day, and later, through Harriet Holden, he learned that she was confined to her room with a bad cold.
1. What was Edith thinking of?
2. who?
3. Did she speak with him?
4. how?
5. What is she asking about?
6. received what?
7. did he?
8. What did she ask of him?
9. when?
10. did it come that day?
11. Who was brought to the courtroom?
12. Was she able to see him?
13. how often?
14. how about in jail?
15. who eklse visited?
16. was she at court also?
17. Was this a short trial?
18. What happened to Edith at the end?
19. did she still go to court?
20. who told him about the cold?

Numbered answers:
1. When she could reach him.
2. Jimmy's attorney.
3. Yes.
4. She told the lawyer that some new evidence was to have been brought in.
5. If he had received it.
6. The new evidence.
7. No.
8. To be called.
9. The moment it was brought in.
10. No.
11. Jimmy.
12. Yes.
13. Daily.
14. As often as they would let her.
15. Harriet Holden.
16. Yes.
17. No.
18. She got a bad cold.
19. No.
20. Harriet Holden.

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CHAPTER XXIII

Philippa and Helen met in the drawing-room, a few minutes before eight that evening. Philippa was wearing a new black dress, a model of simplicity to the untutored eye, but full of that undefinable appeal to the mysterious which even the greatest artist frequently fails to create out of any form of colour. Some fancy had induced her to strip off her jewels at the last moment, and she wore no ornaments save a band of black velvet around her neck. Helen looked at her curiously.

"Is this a fresh scheme for conquest, Philippa?" she asked, as they stood together by the log fire.

Philippa unexpectedly flushed.

"I don't know what I was thinking about, really," she confessed. "Is that the exact time, I wonder?"

"Two minutes to eight," Helen replied.

"Mr. Lessingham is always so punctual," Philippa murmured. "I wonder if Captain Griffiths would dare!"

"We've done our best to warn him," Helen reminded her friend. "The man is simply pig-headed."

"I can't help feeling that he's right," Philippa declared, "when he argues that they couldn't really prove anything against him."

"Does that matter," Helen asked anxiously, "so long as he is an enemy, living under a false name here?"

"You don't think they'd--they'd--"

"Shoot him?" Helen whispered, lowering her voice. "They couldn't do that! They couldn't do that!"

The clock began to chime. Suddenly Philippa, who had been listening, gave a little exclamation of relief.

"I hear his voice!" she exclaimed. "Thank goodness!"

Helen's relief was almost as great as her companion's. A moment later Mills ushered in their guest. He was still wearing his bandage, but his colour had returned. He seemed, in fact, almost gay.
1. Who is getting together?
2. Where?
3. What time?
4. What time is it more precisely?
5. Who is usually on time?
6. What is Phillippa wearing?
7. Does she look good in it?
8. Is she wearing earrings?
9. Who did they try to warn?
10. Are they worried about him?
11. Does the time change while they wait?
12. What time is it now?
13. Why is Phillippa relieved?
14. Who else is relieved?
15. Is the guest injured?
16. How can we tell?
17. Does he look happy?
18. Is he pale?
19. What were they worried someone would do to him
20. Who brought him in?

Numbered answers:
1. Philippa and Helen
2. In the drawing-room
3. A few minutes before eight
4. Two minutes to eight
5. Mr. Lessingham
6. A new black dress
7. Yes
8. No
9. Mr. Lessingham.
10. Yes
11. Yes
12. Has to be 8
13. She hears his voice.
14. Helen
15. Yes
16. He was wearing a bandage.
17. Yes
18. Not any more.
19. Shoot him.
20. Mills

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(CNN) -- The promoter and agent who first brought The Beatles to America has died.

Sid Bernstein died Wednesday in New York City, publicist Merle Frimark said in a statement. He was 95.

Bernstein helped start the "British invasion" by bringing The Beatles to Carnegie Hall and later, to New York's Shea Stadium for landmark concerts in 1965 and 1966.

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Bernstein booked the Carnegie Hall concert in August 1963 -- the same year that Capitol Records had rejected three singles from the group.

"I'm a hunch player, you see," Bernstein once said, according to his publicist's statement. "I was just glad to get this group I had been reading about for months. It took eight months after I booked them for there to be any airplay of their records on the radio. I had to convince Carnegie Hall and my financial backers to take a chance on this then-unknown group. I had been reading about their progress in the European papers and was fascinated with the hysteria that surrounded them. I was the first to promote The Beatles in the States and Ed Sullivan called me first about them before he ever booked them on his television show."

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Ultimately, it was Sullivan's audience who heard them first, on February 9, 1964. The Carnegie Hall concert that Bernstein booked was three days later.

Bernstein, the son of Russian immigrants, also booked top acts like Frank Sinatra, Jimi Hendrix, Judy Garland and the Rolling Stones.
1. Who died?
2. How old was he?
3. Where?
4. What was his job?
5. Which band did he book?
6. And started what?
7. When did he book the hall?
8. Why?
9. Was that concert their first one in the US?
10. Where was it?
11. What day was that?
12. And when was the Carnegie Hall concert?
13. How many months between booking and popularity?
14. Were Bernstein's parents born in the US?
15. Where were they from?
16. Who else did he book?
17. Which baseball park did they play at?
18. How many times?
19. When?
20. Who was his publicist?
Numbered answers:
1. Sid Bernstein
2. 95
3. in New York City
4. promoter and agent
5. The Beatles
6. the "British invasion"
7. August 1963
8. he played a hunch
9. no
10. Ed Sullivan's television show
11. February 9, 1964
12. three days later
13. eight
14. no
15. Russia
16. Frank Sinatra, Jimi Hendrix, Judy Garland and the Rolling Stones.
17. Shea Stadium
18. twice
19. 1965 and 1966
20. Merle Frimark