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"'Bject! Not cross-examination," cried the State's attorney. "M' answer," said the judge. "What did I do to it?" said Curly. "Why, I poked it with a stick." "What happened?" "Why, it fell plumb to pieces." "Did it disappear?" "Shore it did. Wasn't a thing left." "Did it look like a man's body, then?" "No, it just looked like a pile o' ashes." "Bore no trace or resemblance to a man, then?"
There is no evidence before the court that there ever was such a fight. The question is incompirrelvimmaterial." "S'tained!" said the judge. Beattie was satisfied. The arrow had been pulled out, but its poison remained. He made use of another of his tantalizing pauses, then: "It was shortly afterward that Mrs. Cheever divorced her husband, was it not?" "I 'bject," McNiven barked.
We have always been friends." "Your 'friendship' was considerably excited when she married Mr. Cheever, wasn't it?" "I I thought he was unworthy of her." "Was that why you beat him up in a fist fight at your club?" This startled the entire court. Even reporters who had missed the news were excited. McNiven sprang to his feet, crying: "I 'bject!
"I will not answer such an insulting question." "I beg your pardon most humbly. Were you registered as the defendant's wife?" McNiven's voice: "I 'bject. There is no evidence witness even saw the book." The judge: "Objection s'tained." "Well, then, Mrs. Cheever, did you see the defendant write in the book?" "I I perhaps I did " "Perhaps you did.
Sort o' laid him out, some." "'Bject!" cried the State's attorney, but the judge yawned "M' go on." "Did he act strangely after receiving that blow?" "Why, yes; I reckon you would yerself. He hit him a good lick. It was fer ridin' Hank's favourite mare, an' from that time to now Juan ain't never been on horseback since. That shows he's loco. Any man what walks is loco.
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