Youve got to convince that jury yourself. The next
momentshe had scuttled back with her chair to her old position.
Inever drink, replied Hotchkiss, with the severe
attitude of a totalabstainer. But there was, he was shocked to say, a new
sacrilegious intrusion.
He lightly put asidethe compliment with a wave of
his white hand.
Both men drove out on the Shell Road back of
cemetery next morning. I came to see you along o that speech of yours. Her eyesagain
answered that she expected he would, but she added, simply,When?
Picture to yourself, gentlemen, the lonely
moonlightroad beside the widows humble cottage.
Then Ireckon shootin must be one of those habits,
said Pinkey, coolly. She put her kneescomfortably together and leaned forward for a
reply.
She lifted her disturbing eyes, and again absorbed
his in her own.
And here an unprecedented thing
occurred.
They were the damning, incontrovertibleproofs of
the perfidy of the defendant. I said to maw, Aint he too sweet for
anything!
They were the eyes of anexperienced woman of thirty
fixed in the face of a child.
Nevertheless, the situation provoked the intensest
curiosity. The Colonel, without replying, slowlyfilled a glass of whiskey and water.
They were the eyes of anexperienced woman of thirty fixed in the face of a child. At
which she rose, the Colonel rising also. He paused, and to his surprise her
listlesscompany face lit up with an adorable smile.
And here an unprecedented thing occurred.
Breach-of-promise cases were his peculiar aversion. What elsethe Colonel saw there
Heaven only knows!