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After a night and a day of groveling terror she had recaptured the valor that makes and keeps a woman good, and she leaped from her sick bed and her sick soul into an armor of rage. She burst in on McNiven and Jim and demanded a share in the battle. When Jim told her of his latest blunder she spoke up, stoutly: "You did the right thing. To try to buy them off would be to confess guilt.
He insisted on McNiven's calling him to the stand, though McNiven begged him to let ill enough alone.
Charity Coe Cheever, take the stand...." "Ju swear tell tru thole tru noth buth tru thelpugod?" "I do." McNiven, in the direct examination, asked only such questions as Charity easily answered with proud denials of guilt. Beattie began the cross-examination with a sneering scorn of her good faith. "Mrs. Cheever, you are the co-respondent in this case of Dyckman versus Dyckman?" "I am."
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.
The next morning McNiven found Charity at his office when he arrived. She had evidently been awake all night. She told McNiven a story that agreed in the essentials with Jim's except that she made herself out the fool where he had blamed himself. McNiven had no success in trying to quiet her with soothing promises of a tame conclusion. She dreaded Kedzie.
Charity sighed, rising with a forlorn sense of friendlessness. McNiven growled: "Sit down! Of course I'll help you, but I don't intend to let you drag me into ruin, and I won't help you get a divorce that would be disallowed at the first peep of light." "What can I do then? Peter said it could be managed quickly and quietly." "There are ways and ways, Charity Coe.
"I hadn't realized just what it meant." "I thought not," said McNiven. "He'll have to give me evidence of of something that has already happened, then, won't he?" "The law calls that collusion also." "Then what am I to do?" "Couldn't you get evidence somehow without taking it from him?" Charity was about to shake her head, but she nodded it violently.
Charity regretted her impetuous speech, but McNiven explained it. Jim was pretty well deadened to shocks by this time, but the news that his wife had been disloyal found an untouched spot in his heart to stab. It gave him a needed resentment, however, and a much-needed something to feel wronged about. He caught a spark of Charity's blazing anger, and they resolved to fight the case to the limit.
The next morning McNiven appeared before Justice Palfrey, submitted his motion, and asked for an interlocutory decree. He left his paper with the clerk. During the afternoon Justice Palfrey looked over the referee's report and decided to grant McNiven's motion.
McNiven would have done better to leave things alone. The sturdy last answer of Charity and the unsportsmanlike sneer of Kedzie's lawyer had inclined the jury her way. McNiven's explanation awoke again the skeptic spirit. Charity descended from her pillory with a feeling that she had said none of the things she had planned to say.
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