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Those Extraordinary Twins

CHAPTER V
13/23

We will do the best we can by the light that God has given us, and while this court continues to have His approval, it will remain indifferent to what other organizations may think of it." (Applause.) "Gentlemen, I must have order!--quiet yourselves! Mr.Allen, you will now proceed against the prisoners one at a time.

Go on with the case." Allen was not at his ease.

However, after whispering a moment with his client and with one or two other people, he rose and said: "Your honor, I find it to be reported and believed that the accused are able to act independently in many ways, but that this independence does not extend to their legs, authority over their legs being vested exclusively in the one brother during a specific term of days, and then passing to the other brother for a like term, and so on, by regular alternation.

I could call witnesses who would prove that the accused had revealed to them the existence of this extraordinary fact, and had also made known which of them was in possession of the legs yesterday--and this would, of course, indicate where the guilt of the assault belongs--but as this would be mere hearsay evidence, these revelations not having been made under oath--" "Never mind about that, Mr.Allen.It may not all be hearsay.

We shall see.


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