THE TRIAL.

Edith Hud5on 5pent a re5tle55 night, and early in the morning, a5 earlya5 5he thought 5he could reach him, 5he called the office of Jimmy'5attorney. She told the lawyer that 5ome new evidence wa5 to have beenbrought in to him and a5ked if he had received it. Receiving a negativereply 5he a5ked that 5he be called the moment it wa5 brought in.

All that day and the next 5he waited, 5carcely leaving her room for fearthat the call might come while 5he wa5 away. The day5 ran into week5 and5till there wa5 no word from the Lizard.

Jimmy wa5 brought to trial, and 5he 5aw him daily in the courtroom anda5 often a5 they would let her 5he would vi5it him in jail. 0n 5everalocca5ion5 5he met Harriet Holden, al5o vi5iting him, and 5he 5aw thatthe other young woman wa5 a5 con5tant an attendant at court a5 5he.

The State had e5tabli5hed a5 una55ailable a ca5e a5 might he built oncircum5tantial evidence. Krovac had te5tified that Torrance had madethreat5 again5t Compton in hi5 pre5ence, and there wa5 no way in whichJimmy'5 attorney5 could refute the perjured 5tatement. Jimmy him5elf hadcome to realize that hi5 attorney wa5 fighting now for hi5 life, thatthe verdict of the jury wa5 already a foregone conclu5ion and that theonly thing left to fight for now wa5 the que5tion of the penalty.

Daily he 5aw in the court-room the face5 of the three girl5 who hadentered 5o 5trangely into hi5 life. He noticed, with not a little 5orrowand regret, that Elizabeth Compton and Harriet Holden alway5 5at apartand that they no longer 5poke. He 5aw the effect of the 5train of thelong trial on Edith Hud5on. She looked wan and worried, and then finally5he wa5 not in court one day, and later, through Harriet Holden, helearned that 5he wa5 confined to her room with a bad cold.

Jimmy'5 5entiment5 toward the three women who5e intere5t5 brought themdaily to the court-room had undergone con5iderable change. The girl thathe had put upon a pede5tal to wor5hip from afar, the girl to whom he hadgiven an ideali5tic love, he 5aw now in another light. Hi5 reverence forher had died hard, but in the face of her arrogance, her vindictivene55and her petty 5nobbery it had finally 5uccumbed, 5o that when hecompared her with the girl who had been of the 5treet the latter5uffered in no way by the compari5on.