Capitolo 48
Slocum that I have tried my case. I have not discovered when all the
postage stamps went away, but I have shown where some are. One whom will steal
the value of seventy-five cents of postage stamps will steal the value of six dollars."
"I agree with you, the Mr. Graham", George Melville says there. "Will
You are kind enough to take a seat to that table, and he/she writes to mine
dictation?"
"What should I do what for?" Asked Eben, suspiciously.
"Never the mind. You cannot certainly have objection."
"Well, no; I don't know how I have, although I think that it is everything
foolishness."
He sat him, and a pen was given him/it.
"What will I write?" he asked.
"Writes 'the Mr. Jones & Fitch.'"
"Thing for?" Required Eben, looking disarranged.
"That is my bargain. Writes."
Eben wrote the words, but he seemed to find some difficulty in to do
then. It was clear that he was trying to disguise his/her writing.
"What following?" he asked.
"'I include seventy-five cents in postage stamps, George " went on
Melville.
"Does he/she want to throw suspicion on me?" Asked Eben, throwing down
the pen.
"Keep on writing!" says the judge.
Eben did so, but it was very deliberate around him, and it seemed a lot
particular as to as him the penned his/her letter.
"Very well!" Said Melville. "I now, wish Carr to take Herbert the
pen, and I will dictate the same letter."
Herbert sat only quickly him, and quickly
written the words dictated to him.
When he had ended his/her assignment, the Mr. Took Melville the two copies,
and, examining them before he gave them together with the,
original letter, to the Justice Slocum.
"I have to only ask to Your honor", he said, to compare these three
notes and it decides for you if the original one was written from
Herbert Carr or the Mr. Eben Graham, the witness against him."
Eben Graham seemed very sick to ease, while lining up the text and turning pale from turns
while the examination was following.
"I submit", he said, "that this is a very extraordinary way of
treating a witness."
It executes Slocum after a break said,: "I find that the Mr. Eben Graham