Everyone in this room knows that the elopement of Dorothy Burland is at the bottom of this affair, everyone but yourself, judge.

This lad was the accepted sweetheart of that wayward miss.

This man Slocum is one of the rough, loud-spoken men of the village, schooled in vice and fisticuffery.

You can well imagine, gentlemen of the jury," he turned to them abruptly, "you can well imagine the kind of a greeting this town loafer would give this high-spirited boy on that morning after the night when his _inamorata_ disappeared with a married man.

The boy has in him somewhat of the knight of the old time, your Honor; he has never opened his lips in dispraise of his faithless love.