to the business; it would not answer the purpose that O'Sullivan
should appear in the room the moment the Doctor entered. At least
he was not in the immediate view of the Doctor when he entered the
room, because his presence would have excited the Doctor's
suspicion. The Doctor certainly did not see him in that room, if he
was there, until after the door was closed behind him and after the
first blow was struck that Mrs. Hoertel heard.

THE VALUE OF HUMAN MEMORY.

"Now, gentlemen, such is the value of human memory. These witnesses
said they were there up to O'Sullivan's time of departure, and he
was at home at supper. You see their anxiety to be able to account
for O'Sullivan's whereabouts, and to be able to fix the time that
would answer his purpose. When Tom Whalen was put on the stand I
think I cross-examined him myself as to the hour in which he was in
the habit of getting home. 'Oh,' he said, 'at various hours,' but
it was finally narrowed down to the fact that he got home about
6:30. He had to go about a mile and a half to his home, and he said
that he generally got there about 7. Then as soon as he saw that I
was endeavoring to pin him down to an earlier hour, taking the hour
he quitted work as a gauger, he said he would sometimes loaf around
the barn and talk ten or fifteen minutes with the men. He said also
that they generally waited supper for him after he got home. That
shows that supper was late. It appeared that the ladies went out
after supper. They say they went out on their own suggestion.
Probably they did. They were absent. I am glad they were absent,
but if they had not been they probably would have said they had
seen O'Sullivan that evening. O'Sullivan would say to them, 'Don't
you remember that I was here?' and they would not deny it, but
would believe it, and in their anxiety to help and save him they
would believe it surely and swear to it. That is all I wish to say
about those ladies. It was necessary to get supper late. Mrs.
Hoertel had seen a man standing between the two houses inside the
fence about 8 o'clock--probably five or ten minutes past 8 o'clock.
She saw a man standing between the Carlson cottage and the little
cottage in which the Carlsons lived. He was standing on the
sidewalk inside the fence--in other wo