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 his wife was killed, and that it was particularly unusual, since it was Saturday.

Elmen cross-examined only perfunctorily. It was plain to Calvin that Elmen was feeling, as he himself realized, the diminution of interest in the witnesses for the State. The jury, like the crowd on the court benches, seemed to be relaxed and waiting without further interest in the prosecution; they wanted to see, upon the witness stand, the girl who had been shown them in the court-room when the jury was being chosen and who since had been banished to the witness-room; they would have her exhibit her beauty and bare her soul to save the prisoner; and they would wait no longer for their treat.