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[Carbin <cl...@tr...>]

Owed a desire to reach the truth with the least possible delay. One of
the judges showed the wide and unbiased attitude of the court by a
little speech after an especially venomous contest. "Gentlemen," he
said, "we are attempting to get to a solution of this thing. We are
trying one man, it is true, but, in a certain sense, we are trying every
member of the crew, every person who was on board the ship the night of
the crime. We have a curious situation. The murderer is before us,
either in the prisoner's dock or among the witnesses. Let us get at the
truth without bickering." Mrs. Johns was called, following Miss Lee. I
watched her carefully on the stand. I had never fathomed Mrs. Johns, or
her attitude toward the rest of the party. I had thought, at the
beginning of the cruise, that Vail and she were incipient lovers. But
she had taken his death with a calmness that was close to indifference.
There was something strange and inexplicable in her tigerish
championship of Turner--and it remains inexplicable even now. I have
wondered since--was she in love with Turner, or was she only a fiery
partisan? I wonder! She testified with an insolent coolness that clearly
irritated the prosecution--thinking over her replies, refusing to recall
certain things, and eyeing the jury with long, slanting glances that set
them, according to their type, either wriggling or ogling. The first
questions were the usual ones. Then: "Do you recall the night of the
31st of July?" "Can you be more specific?" "I refer to the nig