The prosecuting attorney is not a partisan.

But Le Drieux's attorneys were skillful fighters and did not relish defeat.

"Mr. District Attorney," he cried, "that's no crank letter.

Now if the District Attorney should be a little easyand I think that, considering your age, and my influence with him, he would bea new commitment might not issue perhaps before you could get out of reach of it.

" "My attorney is a rascal," said Craft, white with passion, as he arose.

The Attorney on the opposite side was a Mr. Tomlinson, a man then in extensive practice, but forward, assuming, and self-sufficient.

"Mr. Cumberland,"the district attorney was very serious,"this hat and this coat, old as they are, were worn into town from your house that night.

The district attorney is a pretty good friend of mineand he's a good square fellow.

He told them what a wise and upright judge the old baboon on the bench was; and what a sterling, honest, kindly chap the fat assistant district attorney really was.

COUNTY ATTORNEY: (preoccupied) Is there a cat? (MRS HALE glances in a quick covert way at MRS PETERS.)

The SHERIFF and HALE are men in middle life, the COUNTY ATTORNEY is a young man; all are much bundled up and go at once to the stove.

Kent stayed partly because a local attorney for the railroad was as necessary in Gaston the bereaved as in Gaston the strenuous; partly, also, because he was a student of his kind, and the broken city gave him laboratory opportunities for the study of human nature at its worst.

Ah, my dear young attorney-general, in prospective, if I had only known you when my troubles commenced, my creditors would have been a great deal better managed than they were!