The only perfectly cool man in the room was Small.

With a quiet air of professional authority he pushed forward and felt the patient's pulse, remarking to the court that he thought it was a sudden attack of fever with delirium.

When Walter revived, Dr.Small would have removed him, but Ralph insisted that his testimony should be heard.

Under pretense of watching his patient, Small kept close to him.

And Walter began the same old story about Dr.Small's having arrived at the office before eleven o'clock, when Bud came up behind the doctor and fastened his eyes on the witness with the same significant look, and Walter, with visions of the penitentiary before him halted, stammered, and seemed about to faint again.
"If the court please," said Bronson, "this witness is evidently intimidated by that stout young man," pointing to Bud.