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room? Judge Neal is punctual. I 

 find that the prosecution has a few 

 exhibits." He conversed in a low 

 tone with Nimrod until the main 

 business block of the town was 

 reached. It was two story, of brick, 

 the ground floor divided into stores, 

 the second floor devoted to several 

 offices and the ' ' town hall. ' ' Within 

 its bare, dirty, whitewashed walls 

 had transpired most of the excite- 

 ments of Garver. Its dances, its 

 political meetings, its theatricals, its 

 public functions and its trials. On 

 gala occasions, flags and greens may 

 have draped its ugliness, to-day 

 there was not one spot of beauty 

 upon which the repelled eye could 

 rest. High, narrow windows, dirty 

 and bare of shades, admitted the 

 August's sun full heat upon a deal 

 table at one end, a dozen wooden 

 chairs grouped near it and two rows 

 of heavy wooden benches ranging 

 back from it. A glass transom, 

 broken at some more jovial session 

 had been mended with brown paper, 

 and the insignia of winter, a cast- 

 iron pot-bellied stove, had been dis- 

 jointed by one pipe length, the two 



