is against the flames of public wrath, but some way I
think he is fighting something inside himself--fighting it back;
fighting it down--whatever it is."

Counsel also begs indulgence while he introduces and reads two
clippings from the Sycamore Ridge _Daily Banner_, of February 12,
1904. The first one reads:--

"Judge Bemis Retires

"Hon. E. W. Bemis has retired from the federal bench, and rumour has
it that he is soon to return with his estimable wife to our midst.
Our people will welcome the judge and Mrs. Bemis with open arms. He
retires from an honourable career, to pass his declining years in
the peace and quiet of the town in which he began his career over
fifty years ago. For as every one knows, he came West as a boy, and
before having been admitted to the bar dealt largely in horses and
cattle. He has always been a good business man, having with his
legal acumen the acquisitive faculty, and now he is looking for some
place to invest a modest competence here in the Ridge, and rumour
has it again that he is negotiating for the purchase of the Sycamore
Ridge Waterworks bonds, which are now in litigation. If so, he will
make an admirable head of that popular institution."

In this connection, and before introducing the other clipping from the
_Banner_, it would be entirely proper to introduce the manuscript for
the above, in the typewriting of the stenographer of Judge Bemis's
court, and a check for fifty dollars payable to Adrian Brownwell,
signed by Judge Bemis aforesaid; but those documents would only clog
the narrative and would not materially strengthen the case, so they
will be thrown out.

The second clipping, found in the personal column of the _Banner_ of
the date referred to, February 12, 1904, follows:--

"Mrs. John Barclay and Miss Barclay are on the steamer _Etruria_
which was sighted off Fire Island to-day. They will spend a few
weeks in New York, and early in March Miss Barclay will enter the
state university to do some post-graduate work in English, and Mrs.
Barclay will return to Sycamore Ridge. Mr. Barclay will meet them at
the pier, and they expect to spend the coming two weeks attending
German opera. Mrs. Mary Barclay left to-day for the East to join
them. She will remain a month visiting relatives near Haverhill,
Mass."

It becomes necessary to append some letters of Miss Jeanette
Barcla