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Morse did not know it. Not till he had passed a dozen steps beyond a man in heavy furs did his mind register recognition of him as Whaley. He did not even wonder what business was taking the gambler toward Angus McRae's house. Business obtruded its claims. He arranged with Blandoine to take the robes out with him and walked back to the McRae storehouse.
Perhaps Lord Vincent had not altogether credited McRae's statement, made to him at the station house, for certainly his eyes opened with consternation on seeing this party enter the room. Johnstone marshaled them to their appointed places on the right hand of the magistrate. On turning around Ishmael met full the eyes of the viscount. Ishmael gravely bowed and averted his head.
Since daybreak they had been marching in to Angus McRae's house and gravely kissing his wife and daughter. Jessie did not like it. She was a fastidious young person. But she could not escape without mortally offending the solemn-eyed warriors who offered this evidence of their esteem.
In relating the events on November 5th, McRae's story did not differ materially from that of the witnesses who had already testified. He stated that a bullet passed thru his foot, striking the heel of his shoe, and coming out of the side. The shoe was then offered in evidence. He testified that another shot struck the calf of his leg and passed completely thru the limb.
Jessie was the kind of girl such a life had made her, with modifications in the direction of fineness induced by McRae's sturdy character, her schooling at Winnipeg, and the higher plane of the family standard. As might have been expected, she had courage, energy, and that quality of decisive action bred by primitive conditions.
As an example of McRae's methods and as depicting a phase of the life of the migratory worker the story of "Sergeant" John J. Keenan, sixty-five years old, and still actively at work, is of particular interest: "I left Great Falls, Mont., about the 5th of September after I had been working on a machine in the harvest about nine miles from town.
His description of the motion of McRae's hands differed from that given by the deputy witnesses and was such as would indicate the drawing of a gun from a belt holster. He testified that McRae swung around to the right just before being shot, thus contradicting McRae, who had declared that the turn he had made was to the left.
Ex-deputy Charles Lawry told of various brutalities at the jail and also impeached McRae's testimony in many other particulars. Dr. Grant Calhoun, who had attended the more seriously injured men who were taken from the Verona on its return to Seattle, told of the number and nature of the wounds that had been inflicted.
I too thank you," she said stiffly. "Your brother! He's not Angus McRae's son, is he?" "No. And I'm not his daughter really. I'll tell you about that," she said with a touch of the defensive defiance that always came into her manner when the subject of her birth was referred to. She did, later, over the camp-fire. It is fortunate that desire and opportunity do not always march together.
McRae's callous admissions of brutality discounted any favorable impression his testimony might otherwise have conveyed to the jury.
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