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 said Elmen and halted his eyes shifting to the book, "he has something else. For yourself, perhaps, you can see. That is far the best way. To-day Mr. Clarke is trying a case; he should be cross-examining now. Go over to the Criminal Court Building. With your employer, already I have fixed it. See for yourself what Mr. Clarke does, so when you are on the stand, and I can not help you, you will get ideas of your own how to answer him."

Calvin was completing the cross-examination of a witness when Joan Daisy entered the court-room. He did not see her when she came in, and he failed to notice her until more than an hour afterwards; for the defense rested and Calvin soon began speaking for the State to the jury.

He possessed the faculty, which Max Elmen would have deemed in himself a fault, of extraordinary absorption in a principle, when addressing a jury. Especially when, he was hard-pressed, when he realized that he had made no headway with the jurymen and at the point when another lawyer would resort to a play of personalities, angling for the adherence of individual jurymen, Calvin pursued an opposite path, which took him into an intense appeal for abstract justice in which he completely submerged himself and almost forgot, as persons, the twelve men to whom he spoke. In such an appeal, of course, he became wholly oblivious to the personalities of the spectators and audience in the court-room.

He had noticed, before the day's hearing began, that the ordinary scattering of Augarian's friends and courtroom loafers were present; and the widows of the firemen, who had been killed, and a few of their friends as usual occupied front benches. At the outset, Calvin referred to them, when he turned to the jury; but soon he