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 decided to walk, partly out of liking for the weather, partly from impatience which made it difficult for him to wait idly in his room, and partly because he was aware that every appearance of himself, as a representative of the State, would be set and balanced against a corresponding appearance of the persons opposed to the State.

The Royle girl, he knew, undoubtedly was acting under most explicit orders from Elmen, who would direct her to travel from her flat by street car and to proceed from the car-line on foot; and Calvin wished to avoid arriving in a cab when the Royle girl and Ketlar's mother appeared on the walk.

To-day, with the call of his trial, Ketlar's name again captured the headlines; and portraits of Ketlar, of his wife, now three months buried, of the Royle girl and Calvin Clarke preëmpted the picture pages. One paper had taken the trouble to obtain a view of Adele Ketlar's grave in Minnesota, with Ketlar's child posed beside the stone cross.

The child remained in Minneapolis, although Ellison had argued that she should be brought back and exhibited in sight of the jury for at least one court session, to offset the sympathy certain to be stirred by the presence of Ketlar's mother; but Calvin opposed the plan and Ellison himself reflected that the little girl might prove a doubtful ally.

"Suppose she reminded a juryman of a child of his own and set him to thinking of himself in Ketlar's place; we'd never win," Ellison commented. "You can't take any chance when you have a hanging case."

Calvin wished that Ellison would not refer to "hanging"; the phrase, a capital case, adequately classified it in Calvin's mind, and he did not permit himself to dwell upon the infliction of the extreme penalty which it was his duty to procure.