And you yourself swear that it waslast in your
hands before it reached the water. Or hadnt you really agreedto go away with her and
marry her, as she seems to think here? Or hadnt you really agreedto go away with her
and marry her, as she seems to think here?
Well, Ive admitted that I didnt treat her right.
But Belknap none-the-less proceeding with:And what of that? Well, were they all
liars, or were they telling the truth? Clyde was quite cool, though pale and tired.
Then you refuse to allow this demonstration to be made? I had decided that I was
willing to marry her.
Theprosecution will confine itself more closely to
the case in hand. Peytons housewhere you were and reassure that lonely girl by so
much as a wordthat you were coming?
Well, I asked her what she thought and she said she
thought thatwas best.
Here Jephson waved aside Belknaps suggestion that
he move to havethis comment stricken out. Well, I asked her what she thought and she
said she thought thatwas best.
Hiding away like that andwaiting in the dark and
pretending that you had just come up fromAlbany. About thirty to thirty-five feet
then, suggested Mason, slyly andhopefully. She was drowning, as you wanted her to
drown, and you justlet her drown!
Did you sleep well and did you have pleasant
dreams?
Dont be so much of a moral and
mentalcoward.
And had not Burton Burleigh testified to having
discovered ahair in the camera?
You wanted to get away from that place as quickly
as possible,wasnt that it?
You were intimate enoughwith her, werent you? Mason
wasfairly beside himself with rage and Clyde did not venture tocomment as to that.
It had not been as he had planned and he couldswear to that.
As far as from here to this end of thejury box or
that end, or half way, or what? You mean your lawyers have explained it
foryou!
Yet at the same time loving and seeking the company
of Miss X? Ive explained how that happened, replied Clyde nervously. Or hadnt you
really agreedto go away with her and marry her, as she seems to think here? I didnt
ask em that, replied Clyde, as he had been instructedby Jephson to say. I asked em
if they knew any road to ThreeMile Bay, and how far it was. But with that particular
incident the court was adjourned for thisday.
Well, now, after that boat turned over and you both
came up, wherewere you in relation to IT?