The Room with the Little Door

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I’ve changed my mind. Oh, no, I haven’t! Did I? What? I charged that way? No, indeed! I did! I mean that I said, No. Yes, Yes! I did not. Then I will charge it. What? My meaning...

“Do you see that man? He’s in for m-u-r-d-e-r!” You shudder and turn away, saying “poor fellow” perhaps, and the sweet girl you are escorting gets a little closer to your strong...

Take this matter home to yourself; imagine a case in which you are very much interested. Your house has been entered and all your wife’s jewelry stolen; you complain to the poli...

“Oh,” said the lame man, “that’s what the judge _intends_ to give yer _now_; after ‘the century plant’ talks to him for three or four hours, the judge will give you eighty years.”

In courts of justice no experts should be allowed to plead (_ex-parte_) for the side they espouse. Experts in handwriting are notorious for this; and their methods and deduction...

They brought me sandwiches and a cup of coffee. While disposing of them I talked to my friends the keepers, telling them about my experiences in the cattle business so long ago...

It was the crisis of the trial. It was the crucial moment. It was the crossroads, whence one path led to freedom and the other ran darkly away to shame and death. Molineux knew...