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 vail only temporarily, when some one else possessed the truth about you. So Calvin trapped her and showed the jury out of her own lips that she lied, and when he thought that he was about to crush her she cast at him:

"You have it; we were thrown out of that hotel, Mr. Clarke. But what I told you about Ket was true; he was awfully nice to me; and if we were being thrown out, and he was so nice to me, doesn't that make it better of him?"

"After the occasion when you and your family were being ejected from the hotel at which Ketlar was working," Calvin resumed a few moments later, "you did not meet him again until last September?"

"No."

"When you found yourselves standing side by side, strangers, before a shop window on Wilson Avenue?"

"Yes."

"Which spoke to the other first?"

"He did; but not before I showed that I recognized him," Joan Daisy completed quickly.

"After eight years you recognized him as a man you had known and not merely as some one you had seen and were willing to pick up?"

"I object!" shouted Max Elmen, with hot indignation.

"Objection sustained," ruled the judge; and Calvin flushed warmly, but was not to be distracted from his duty to disclose the character of the witness, as he believed her to be.

"You say you recognized him before you encouraged him to speak to you?"

"Yes."

"Immediately he recalled to you the circumstances of your last meeting?"

"Yes."