erdicts of the jury. After they came in and announced
their decision and were discharged, the judge having lost looked
crestfallen. The stenographer smiled. Then the judge recovered
himself.

"You win," he said, "but the next time you and I bet on a decision it
is going to be one of our cases without a jury."

The attendant asks for the bill and returns to the jury-room. The
court falls into a lethargy of waiting. The jury, having their
information, go on with the discussion, probably on the following
lines.

"Sure, I told you the silks were worth four hundred dollars."

"Well, I know those kind of people; they are small people and they
never did that amount of business in all their lives, let alone one
month." Or,

"Don't you know that neighborhood; all the cars speed up whenever they
get there."

"Why, yesterday I was getting off a car and the conductor pulls the
bell, etc., etc."

"No, I ain't prejudiced against the railroad; I ain't got nothing
against the railroad."

"Of course, we ain't going to decide this case on sympathy or
prejudice. But that boy's Irish and he looks like he come of good
honest people."

"Vy, I don't see no difference whether he is Irish--or Yiddish; vot ve
vant is justice."

"Now see here, my friend, if you think you're going to make this a
racial matter you're mistaken. Just because that boy's Irish you
needn't think he ought not to get nothing. You're prejudiced, that's
what you are."

"Oh, let's get down to the evidence anyway; what we want is to
decide."

"Vel, the motorman vas Irish, vot you talking about?"

"Sure, but he had to say what he did. Didn't he have to hold down his
job with the company?"

The rest of the jury sink back resigned and despondent. They will
never get out. One of them ventures.

"The judge told us that the law was--"

He is interrupted.

"Oh, we don't care so much about the law. What we want to do is to do
what is right."

Somewhere, somehow, and by non-understandable methods the verdict is
reached. If the jury ask for further instructions, they file back into
the court-room and the judge proceeds to elucidate the hidden mystery
of the law in much the same manner he did in his charge. They return
again not satisfied, and take up the discussion.

The most dramatic moment in the trial is when the officer comes in and
announces the jury have agreed. While they slowly file in, the
prisoner or the parties watch them with soul-tearing eyes;