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260 X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS,

who was going to pay a dollar or so. He didn’t think that
Gantt stole that paltry dollar. He expected him to ask where
Mary Phagan was, That, gentlemen of the jury, is why he
jumped back when he saw Gantt. But Gantt spoke to the
defendant, He just said, ‘Howdy, Mr. Frank,’’ The de-
fendant felt relieved then. Gantt told him that he had left
‘a pair of shoes in the factory and wanted to get them. But
it won’t do to let him go in that building now, thought the
defendant, Suppose he should find’ out? He: musn’t go in
there. So the defendant said that he thought he had seen a
nigger sweeping Gantt's shoes out of the building. Ther
Gantt said he had two pairs of shoes in there, and that maybe
the other pair waan’t swept out.

This was the last hope. What could he say to that! He
had said that he saw the nigger sweeping out only one pair.
In a few days this murder must be out, anyway. To keep
Gantt out would arouse his suspicions. And this is what
_ Went on in the defendant’s mind: ‘‘I’ll let him in, but Tl
guard him like a thief.”’ And he said, ‘‘Newt, go with him.”
Strange to say, Gantt found both pairs of shoes, just where
he said he had left them. Gentlemen, does that look like the
defendant had seen a nigger sweeping them outt Does that
Took like the trath?

After he had let Gantt in the factory, what did he dot He
ealled up the factory by phone, a thing that he never had
done before. Whyt Why did he do that thing? Gantt!
Gantt! That’s why! He wanted to know if Gantt had gone,
and whether he was any the wiser. He couldn’t rest until he
knew this. This Banquo’s ghost of a Gantt was haunting
him. But when he knew that Gantt was safely gone and
everything was all right, he was in a fine humor then. He
could laugh and talk. He could sit down in the house with
his wife and read baseball in the newspaper. He could laugh
and try playfully to break up a card game. He felt fine and
relieved. As glad and free as a achool boy! Old long-legged
‘Gannt was gone, and everything was all right!

Now, about Newt Lee. I don't want to thresh out all tho

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