Everyone knew his power before a jury, and the room was painfully silent as he walked with stately tread to a spittoon and cleared his mouth of a big wad of tobacco.

He was the old-fashioned lawyer, formal, deliberate; and though everybody enjoyed Bradley Talcott's powerful speech, they looked for drama from Brown.

The judge waited patiently while the famous old lawyer played his introductory part.

At last, after silently pacing to and fro for a full minute, he turned, and began in a hard, dry, nasal voice.
"Your Honor, I'm not so sure of the reforming effect of a penitentiary.
I question the salutary quality of herding this delicate and high-spirited youth with the hardened criminals of the State." His strident, monotonous tone, and the cynical inflections of his voice made the spectators shiver with emotion as under the power of a great actor.
He paced before the judge twice before speaking again.

"Your Honor, there is more in this case than has yet appeared.