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dissipation, marries the daughter of a
gambler who died in prison, and is dis
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and fails. A former college chum makes
a business proposition to Howard which
requires $2,000 cash, and Howard is broke.
Robert Underwood, who had been re
pulsed by Howard’s wife, Annie, in his
college days, and had once been engaged
to Alicia, Howard’s stepmother, has
apartments at the Astruria, and Is ap
parently in prosperous circumstances.
Howard recalls a $2f>0 loan to Underwood,
that remains unpaid, and decides to ask
him for the $2,000 he needs. Underwood,
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Mrs. Jeffries, Sr., becomes a sort of social
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out afterward that he had been duped.
Proceedings were threatened, but Un
derwood managed to hush the affair
by returning part of the money.”
In another part of the room a couple
were discussing Mr. Jeffries as he
stood talking with Judge Brewster.
"Did you notice how Mr. Jeffries has
aged recently? He no longer seems
the same man."
“ No wonder, after all the trouble
he's had. Of course you know what a
disappointment his son turned out?”
"A scamp, I understand. Married a
chorus girl and all that sort of thing."
"Not exactly, hut almost as bad.
The girl was a waitress or something
Jike that in a restaurant. She’s very
common; her fatSer died In prison.
You can imagine the biaw to old Jef
fries. He turned the boy adrift and
left him to shift for himself.”
Alicia approached her husband, who
was still talking with Judge Brewster.
She was leaning on the arm of a tall,
handsome man with a dark Van Dyke
beard.
“ Who are you discussing with such
interest?” she demanded, as she came
up with her escort.
“ We were talking of Capt. Clinton
and his detestable police methods,”
said the banker.
“ Judge,” said Alicia, turning to the
lawyer, "allow me to introduce Dr.
Bernstein.
Doctor, this is Judge
Brewster.”
The stranger bowed low, as he re
plied courteously:
“ The fame of Judge Brewster has
spread to every state in the union.”
A faint smile spread over the face
of the famous lawyer as he extended
his hand:
‘T’ve often heard of you, too, doc
tor. I ’ve been reading with great in
terest your book, ’Experimental Psy
chology.’ Do you know,” he went
on earnestly, “ there’s a lot in that.
We have still much to learn in that
direction.”
“ I think,” said Dr. Bernstein, quiet
ly, “ that we're only on the threshold
of wonderful discoveries."
Pleased to find that her two distin
guished guests were congenial, Alicia
left them to themselves and joined
her other guests.
“ Yes," said the lawyer musingly,
man has studied for centuries the
mechanism of the body, but he has
neglected entirely the mechanism of
the mind."
Dr. Bernstein smiled approvingly.
"W e are just waking up,” he replied
quickly.
"People are beginning to
look upon psychology seriously. Up
to comparatively recently the layman
has regarded psychology as the do
main of the philosopher and the
dreamer. It did not seem possible
that it could ever be applied to our
practical everyday life, but of late we
have made remarkable strides.
A l
though it is a comparatively new
science, you will probably be aston
ished to'learn that there are to-day In
the United States 50 psychological
laboratories. That is to say, work
shops fully equipped with every de
vice known for the probing of the hu
man brain. In my laboratory in Cali
fornia alone I have as many as twen
ty rooms hung with electric wires and
equipped with all the necessary In
struments—chronoscopes, kymograph,
tachistoscopes and ergographs — In
struments which enable us to meas
ure and record the human brain as
accurately as the Bertillon system.”
"Really, you astonish m e !” ex
claimed the judge. “ This is most in
teresting. Think of laboratories sole
ly devoted to delving into mysteries
of the human brain! It Is wonderful!"
He was silent for a moment, then
he said:
"It is quite plain, I think, that
psychology can prove most useful in
medicine. It is, I take it, the very
foundation of mental healing, but what
else would It do for humanity? For
instance, can it help me, the lawyer?"
Dr. Bernstein smiled.
' You gentlemen of the law have al
ways scoffed at the very suggestion
of bringing psychology to your aid,
but just think, sir, how enormously It
might aid you in cross-examining a
witness. You can tell with almost
scientific accuracy if the witness is
telling lies or the truth, and the same
would be clear to the judge and the
jury. Just think how your powers
would be increased If by your skill in
psychological observation you could
convince the jury that your client,
who was about to be convicted on cir
cumstantial evidence alone, was really
innocent of the crime of which he was
charged. Why, sir, the road which
psychology opens up to the lawyer
is well-nigh boundless. Don’t you use
the Bertillon system to measure the
body? Don’t you rely on thumb prints
to identify the hand? How do you
know that we paychologists are not
able to-day to teat the individual dif-
ferencee of men?”
The richly decorated
reception
rooms, brilliantly illuminated with
soft Incandescent lights artistically
arranged behind hanks of flowers,
were filled with people. In the air
was the familiar buzz always present
in a room where each person Is trying
to speak a t' the same time. On all
sides one heard fragments of inept
conversation.
"So good of you to come! IIow well
you’re looking, my dear."
"M y husband? Oh, he’s at the club,
playing poker, as usual.
He hates
music."
‘T v e such a terrible cold!”
"Trouble with servants? I should
say so. I bounced my cook this morn
ing.’’
"A ren ’t these affairs awfully tire
some?"
“ I was so glad to come. I always
enjoy your musleales.”
"I Don’t Know Much About Music, M’m.”
"Dr. Bernstein coming?
How per
fectly delightful. I ’ll ask him for his
Judge Brewster shook his head and the girl went free, but think of
autograph."
dubiously.
the humiliation and mental anguish
"W hat’s psychology?"
It was simply a
"No, sir, we lawyers never rest. she underwent!
"Something to do with religion, I
W e can't. No sooner is one case dis repetition of his old tactics. A convic
think."
posed of than another crops up to tion, no matter at what'cost.
“ Haven’t we been having dreadful
claim our attention. The trouble with
“ What do you hope to bring about
weather?”
this country is that we have too by this suit?"
" I saw you at the opera."
much law. If I were to be guilty of
“ Arouse public indignation, and
"Doesn't she look sweet?"
an epigram I would say that the coun If possible get Capt. Clinton dismissed
“ Oh, I think it's just lovely."
try has so much law that it is prac from thepforce. His record is none too
People now arrived in quick succes
tically lawless.”
savory. <*$hnrges of graft have been
sion and, forming little groups, the
“ So you’re preparing another case, made against him time and time
room soon presented an animated
scene. The women in their smart eh?" said Mr. Jeffries, interested. again, but so far nothing has been
proved. To-day he Is a man of wealth
gowns and the men In their black "W hat Is it— a secret?”
“ Oh, n o !" answered the lawyer, on a comparatively small salary. Do
coats made a pleasing picture.
"M y dear Mrs. Jeffries, how do you “ the newspapers will be full of It in you suppose his money could have
do this evening?” exclaimed a rich, a day or two. W e are going to bring come to him honestly?”
In another corner of the salon
suit against the city. It's really a
deep voice.
The hostess turned to greet an el test case that should interest every stood Dr. Bernstein, the celebrated
derly and distinguished-looking man citizen; a protest against the high psychologist, the center of an excited
crowd of enthusiastic admirers.
who had just entered. Directly he handed actions of the police.”
The banker elevated his eyebrows.
Alicia approached a group of chat
came In voices were hushed, and on
“ Indeed,” he exclaimed.
"W hat tering women. Each was more elab
every side one heard the whisper:
orately dressed than her neighbor,
"There's Judge Brewster, the fa have the police ^een doing now?”
The lawyer looked at his client in and loaded down with rare gems.
mous lawyer."
They at once stopped talking as their
There was a general craning of surprise.
necks to catch a glimpse of the emi
“ Why, my dear sir, you must have hostess came up.
"It was so good of you to come!'
nent Jurist whose brilliant address to seen by the papers what's been going
The papers said Alicia effusively to a fat woman
the jury In a recent cause celebre on In our city of late.
had saved an innocent man from the have, been full of It. Police brutality, with impossible blonde hair and a
electric chair.
Illegal arrests,< assaults in station rouged face. “ I want to introduce Dr.
Richard Brewster was a fine ex houses, star-chamber methods that Bernstein to you.”
“ Oh, I shall be delighted,” smiled
ample of the old school statesman- would disgrace the middle ages. A
lawyer of the Henry Clay type. He state of affairs exists to-day in the the blonde. Gushingly she added:
belonged to that small class of public city of New York which is inconceiv "How perfectly exquisite you look to
men who are Independent of all able. Here we are living in a civil night, my dear.”
coteries, whose only1 ambition Is to ized country, every man's liberty is
"Do you think so?” said Alicia,
•erve their country well, who know guaranteed by the constitution, yet pleased at the clumsy flattery.
no other duty than that dictated by citizens, as they walk our streets, are
“ Your dress is stunning and your
their oath and conscience.
A bril in greater peril than the Inhabitants tiara stniply gorgeous," raved another.
liant and forceful orator, there was of terror-stricken Russia. Take a po
"Your musicales are always so de
no office In the gift of the nation that lice official of Capt. Clinton's type lightful," exclaimed a third.
might not have been his for the ask His only notion of the law Is brute
At that moment Mr. Jeffries caught
ing. but he had no taste for politics. force and the night stick. A bully by his wife by the arm and drew her at
A fter serving with honor for some nature, a man of the coarsest instincts tention to some newcomers. With a
years on the bench he retired into and enormous physical strength, he laugh she left the group and hurried
private practice, and thereafter his loves to play the tyrant. In his pre toward the door. Directly she was
name became one to conjure with In cinct he poses as a kind of czar and out of earshot, the three women be
the law courts. By sheer power of fondly Imagines he has the power to gan whispering:
By his
his matchless oratory and unanswer administer the law itself.
"Isn't she terribly overdressed?” ex
able logic he won case after case for brow-beating tactics. Intolerable un claimed the blonde. "The cheek of
his clients and It is a tribute to his der Anglo-Saxon government, he Is such a parvenue to wear that tiara.”
name to record the plain fact that in turning our police force Into a gang
"H er face is all made up, too," said
all his career he never championed a of ruffians who have the city terror- another.
cause of which he need be ashamed. stricken. In order to further his polit
“ These affairs of hers are awfully
Powerful financial interests had at ical ambitions he stops at nothing. stupid, don't you think so?" piped the
tempted to secure his services by of He lets the guilty escape when influ third.
fers of princely retainers, but with ence he can't resist is brought to
"Yes, they bore everybody to death,”
out success. H e fought the trusts bit bear, but In order to keep up his rec
said the blonde.
"She's ambitious
terly every time he found them op ord with the department he makes ar
and likes to think she is a social lead
pressing his profession.
rests without the slightest justifica er. I only come here because It
Alicia advanced with extended hand. tion. To secure convictions he manu
amuses me to see what a fool she
"This Is indeed kind, judge.” she ex factures, with the aid of his detec
makes of herself.
Fancy a woman
claimed with a gracious smile.
"I tives, all kinds of perjured evidence.
of her age marrying a man old enough
hardly dared hope that my poor musi To paraphrase a well-known saying,
to be her father. By the by, I don t
cals would be so honored."
bis motto is:
’Convict— honestty, If see her beau here to-night.”
The old lawyer smiled good humor you can— but convict.’ "
"You mean that scamp. Robert Un
ed!)- as he replied gallantly:
"It is outrageous.” said Mr. Jef derwood?”
“I don’t know much about music, fries. “ No one can approve such
Isn t It perfectly scandalous, the
m 'm : I came to see you.” Looking methods. Of course, in dealing with
way he dances after her? I'm sur
around he added: "You've got a nice the criminal population of a great
prised Mr. Jeffries allows him to come
place here."
city, they cannot wear kid gloves, but to the house."
He spoke In hts characteristic man Cmpt. Clinton certainly goes too far.
"Maybe there’s been a row. Per
ner— short, nervous, explosive sen W hat is the specific complaint on
haps that explains why he's not here
tences. which had often terrified his which the suit is based?”
tanlght. It’s the first time I’ve known
opponents In court.
“ C apt Clinton," replied the judge, him absent from one of her musi
"Lawyers are
such
flatterers." "made the mistake of persecuting a
cales."
laughed Alicia as she nervously fanned young woman who happened to be the
He’s conspicuous by his absence.
herself, and looked around to see If daughter of a wealthy client of mine.
Do you know what I heard the other
her guests were watching.
One of his detectives arrested her on day? I was told that Underwood had
"la w y e rs only flatter when they a charge of shoplifting
The girl,
want to," Interrupted Mr. Jeffries, mir.d you. Is of excellent family and again been caught cheating at cards
and summarily expelled from the club
who had just Joined the group.
Irreproachable character.
My client — kicked out, ao to speak."
Atlcta turned to greet a new arrival and hia lawyer tried to show Capt
" I ’m not at all surprised. I always
and the lawyer continued
chatting Clinton that he had made a serious
had my doubts about him. He in
with his boat.
blunder, but he braxened It out, claim
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
“ 1 suppose you’ll take a reat now, ing on the stand that the girl was an duced a friend of mine to buy a pic
after your splendid victory," said the old offender. Of course, ho was ture, and got a tremendous price for
To the Man of Honor.
It on the false representation that It
hanker.
Baoo gains are the same as lossaa.
forced at laat to admit hta mistake was a genuine Corot My friend found
— Hesiod.
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