Even theGriffiths might not be willing to pay out
any more money!
Forwas he not now a victor and an elected
judge!
Yet think what these words meant in case he could
not get a newtrial!
You heard the testimony of Rufus Martin,the second
cook up there at Bear Lake?
And of course you had dinner that night and
breakfast the nextmorning, which cost you how much?
It was a dollar on the train to Gun Lodge and a
dollar on the busfor the two of us to Big Bittern.
Well, now, do you recall a letter Roberta wrote you
on thenineteenth? Well, this is that letter written at the time these pictures
weremade. Masons manner was snarling, punitive, sinister, bitterly sarcastic. Did
you ever stop to figure this all up exactly?
But they were all very sad, you have
said.
Though his sins be as scarlet, make him white as
snow. I could have saved them a lot of trouble.
And that was June eighteenth or nineteenth, wasnt
it?
Then why did you pack everything in your room in
your trunk andlock it? But youdidnt forget to ask the purser the fare to Sharon,
once you got toThree Mile Bay, did you? You even asked the price of the bus fare to
BigBittern.
No, that was the day before, defied Clyde. Tell me
if youdont see a road marked as leading south from Grass Lake. Tell me if youdont
see a road marked as leading south from Grass Lake. Not when you were buying and
eating thirteen-dollarlunches? Not when you were with Miss X again, and where
youyourself testified that you preferred to be?
And of course you had dinner that night and
breakfast the nextmorning, which cost you how much? As for the eighty dollars he had
forgotten. But now here and in this way it wascoming up for the first time. Well,
this is that letter written at the time these pictures weremade.
Though his sins be as scarlet, make him white as
snow.
You even asked the price of the bus fare to
BigBittern.
And then theoffender arrested and ordered arraigned
on the following morning.