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"Of your own knowledge?" interjected Tutt sharply. "Oh, no!" returned Appleboy. "Didn't you know it was a vicious beast?" sharply challenged Pepperill. "Of your own knowledge?" again warned Tutt. "I'd never seen the dog." "Didn't your wife tell you about it?"
"But this man is a Turkish subject and it's a good conviction in Turkey," argued Mr. Tutt. "Well, it isn't here!" protested Pepperill. "You're a little late, aren't you?" inquired His Honor. "It has all been read to the jury. However, I'll entertain a motion to strike out " "I should like to be heard on the question," said Mr. Tutt quickly. "This is an important matter."
How did you happen to have the idea of getting a dog?" Mrs. Appleboy turned the full moon of her homely countenance upon the court. "The potato peel came down that way!" she explained blandly. "What!" exploded the dealer in rubber novelties. "The potato peel it spelled 'dog," she repeated artlessly. "Lord!" deeply suspirated Pepperill. "What a case! Carry me out!" "Well, Mr.
As decent-minded men they won't dare to send a fellow to the chair whose defense they cannot hear and whose motives they do not either know or understand. They will feel, as I do and perhaps you do, that the only persons to do justice among Syrians are Syrians." "Well," replied Mr. Pepperill politely, "what have you to propose?"
That is our case," said Mr. Tutt as the last Syrian left the stand. But there was no response from the bench. Judge Wetherell had been dozing peacefully for several hours. Even Pepperill could not avoid a decorous smile.
"Is that so, Mister District Attorney?" "I don't know," replied Pepperill faintly. "I had nothing to do with the proceedings before the Grand Jury." Judge Wetherell frowned. "It would seem to me," he began, "as if a proper preparation of the case would have involved some slight attention to Well, never mind! Proceed, Mr. Tutt." "Kahoots!" cried the lawyer sternly.
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