making, roller after roller of Barker 

 eloquence broke upon the rocky 

 shore of his Eastern audience. But 

 the jury was visibly impressed. One 

 time my face grew very red and the 

 shrimp pink reflection had made 

 it red enough before. 



"Torn from the loving arms of a 

 beauteous wife like a common criminal 

 he was snatched away from honour 

 and love and position and credit 

 and all that he had wrested from 

 the world's grasp. Picture the poor 

 young wife, deprived of her tender 

 and loving partner, alone in the 

 mountains, away from her home 

 and her dear friends, weeping cop- 

 iously, pale and feeble and sick, en- 

 during agonies of dread and fear." 



Eyes unconsciously travelled to 

 where I sat in the full glow of 

 health, looking uncommonly com- 

 fortable. Vainly I tried at such 

 short notice to become pale, cower- 

 ing, fearful, sick and tormented. 



But unabated the volume of the 

 orator's words flowed on, carrying 

 with it all the debris of his memory. 

 He finished with a peroration in 

 which the glories of the nation past 



