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LEO, M. FRANE. 885

know anything about the action of the gastric juices on
foods in the stomach, this man of the short experience of
seven years, this gentleman, splendid gentleman though he
is, from Michigan, can put his opinion against the eminent
Seeretary of the Georgia Board of Health, Doctor Roy
Harris? I tell you no.

Now, briefly, let’s ran over this nervousness proposition.
The man indicated nervousness when he talked to old man
John Starnes, when Black went out to his house and he sent
his wife down to give him nerve, although he was nearly
dressed and she wasn't at all dressed, he betrayed his nerv-
ousness by the rapidity of his questions, by the form of his
questions. But first, before we get to that, he warned old
Newt Lee to come back there Saturday at four o’clock, and
dutiful old darkey that he was, old Newt walked in and
Frank then wae engaged in washing his hands. Jim Con-
ley hadn't come, but he was looking for Conley, and he sent
old Newt Lee out, although Newt insisted that he wanted to
sleep, and although he might have found a cozy corner on
any floor in that factory, with plenty of sacks and cords
and other things to make him a pallet, he wanted old man
Newt to leave. Why? When Newt said he was sleepy he
wanted him to leave so that he could do just exactly what
old Jim Conley told you Frank made his promise to do,—he
wanted an opportunity to burn that body, so that the City
Police of Atlanta wouldn’t have the Phagan mystery solved
today, and probably it would not even be known that the
girl lost her life in that factory.

His anxiety about Gantt going back into that building
that afternoon, when he hung his head and said to Gantt
that he saw 2 boy sweeping out 2 pair of shoes, and Gantt
says “‘what were they, tan or black?’ And ah, gentlemen,
it looked like Providence had foreordained that this #1d,
Iong-legged Gantt should leave, not only one pair, but two
pairs. ‘What kind were they,’? he said; he gave him the
name of one color, and then, as Providence would have it,
old Gantt said, “ah, but I’ve got two pair,” and then it

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