Otto the Knight: And Other Trans-Mississippi Stories
Otto the Knight: And Other Trans-Mississippi Stories
Thanet Octave
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Redden, an image of the appreciative lis- tener, and an old man in an extraordinarily frayed and rusty black coat, who was sunk into unobtrusive slumber behind a palm-leaf fan. He awakened in time for the peroi*ation, erecting his head and inflating his chest in a dignified manner, as one who had been following the argument closely all along, let appearances be what they might. " Gentlemen of the jury," said the mild, de- liberate voice, " if you find from the evidence, beyond a reasonable doub...t, that the defendant and the deceased were engaged in a game of cards in Jeremiah T. Milligan's saloon in said L Couniy, and State of Arkansas, and that the deceased had, in a game of cards, by cheating or otherwise, won money of the defendant, and had left said saloon ; and that the defendant was in- formed as soon as the deceased left that he had been cheated " — ** Yes, sir, so I was," said the prisoner. His attorney, amid various winks and smiles from the lawyers, bent a very red face close to his ear.
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