Show owr SYNOPSIS howard jeffries Jeff rles bankers son under the evil influence of robert underwood a fel ow student at yale leads a life of dissipation marr es the daughter or of a gambler ho d ed in prison and Is dis owned by his father he tries to get work and falls fails A former colle college ch chum in makes a business proposition to toge howard oward which requires s casi and howard Is broke robert underwood who had been re pulsed by howard s wife annie in h s college days and had bad once been engaged to allela alicia howard s stepmother has apartments at the artrur a and Is ap patently t ly y in prosperous cir circumstances urn stances pre howard r d recalls a 00 G loan to underwood underwood that remains unpaid and decides to ask him for the he needs underwood taking advantage of his intimacy with mrs jeffries Jeff rles sr becomes a sort of social highwayman discovering his true char acter she denies him the bouse house CHAPTER IV the richly decorated reception rooms oms brilliantly illuminated with soft incandescent lights artistically arranged behind banks of flowers idere I 1 were filled with people in the air was the familiar buzz always present in a room where each pel son Is trying to speak at the same time on all sides one heard fragments of inept conversation so good of you to come how well youre you re looking my dear my husband oh he a at the club playing poker as usual he hates music I 1 ve such a terrible old eold trouble with I 1 should say tay so I 1 bounced my cook this morn ing arent these affairs awfully tire some somei 9 I 1 was so glad to come I 1 always enjoy your musicales cales dr bernstein coming how per factly delightful III ask him for his autograph what s psychology 7 something to do with religion I 1 think haven t we been having dreadful 7 I 1 saw you at the opera t she look sweet oh I 1 think its it s just lovely people now arrived in quick seccle ion tion and forming little group groups the room soon presented an animated scene the women in their smart gowns and the men in their black coats made a pleasing picture my dear mrs airs jeffries how do you do this evening 7 exclaimed a rich deep voice the hostess turned to greet an el derly and d looking man who had just entered directly he came in voices were hushed and on every side one heard the whisper there theres s judge brewster the fa lawyer there was a general craning of necks to catch a glimpse of the emi nent jurist whose brilliant address to the jury in a recent cause celebre had saved an innocent man from the electr c chair R chard brewster was a fine ex ample of the old school statesman lawyer of the henry clay type he belonged to that small class of public men who are independent of all coteries whose ambition is to serve their country well who know no other duty than that dictated by their oath and conscience A bril biant and forceful orator there was no office in the gift of the nation that might not have been his for the ask ing but be had no taste for politics after serving with honor for some years on the bench he retired into private practice and thereafter his name became one to conjure with in the law courts by sheer power of his matchless oratory and unan un answer able logic he won case after case for his clients and it is a tribute to his name to record the plain fact that in all his career he never championed a cause of which he need be ashamed powerful financial interests had at tempted to secure his services by of fers of princely retainers but with out success he fought the trusts bit terly every time he found them op pressing his profession alicia advanced with extended band hand this is indeed kind judge she ex claimed with a gracious smile I 1 hardly dared hope that my poor musi must cale would be so honored the old lawyer smiled good humor edly as hp he replied gallantly gallant ll I 1 don t know much about mus c in mm in I 1 came to see you looking around he added you ve got a nice place here he ile spoke in his characteristic man ner short nervous explosive sen bences atch which had often terrified hia his opponent opponents in court lawyers are such flatterers au aughee ched alicia as she nervously tanned fanned barsell and looked around to see it if guests were watching 1 awyers only flatter when they van to interrupted mr jeffries the sad ad just joined the group A la ia turned to greet a new arrival lind nd the clawy larrr r continued chatting with his bos host 1 si appose you II 11 take a rest now att itier pr Y fir splendid victory said the vw TIN it AO 20 ah 13 da thild KLEIN AND ARTHUR HORNBLOW illustration RATION BY R WALTER copyright 1909 AY G W D L 11 L I 1 7 01 0 71 4 r W I 1 don t know much about music M mm m judge brewster shook bis his head dubiously no sir we lawyers never rest we cant can t no sooner is one case dis dig posed of than another crops up to claim our attention the trouble with this country is that we have too much law if I 1 were to be guilty of an epigram I 1 would say that the coun try has so much law that it la Is lawless so you re preparing another case eha said mr jeffries interested what Is it a secreta oh no answered the lawyer the newspapers will be full of it in a 3 day or two we are going to bring suit against the city it its s really a test case that should interest every citizen a protest against the high handed actions of the police the banker elevated his eyebrows indeed he exclaimed what have the police been doing now nowa the lawyer looked at his client in surprise why my dear sir you must have seen by the papers what s been going on in our city of late the papers nave have been full of it police brutality illegal arrears assaults in station houses star chamber methods that would disgrace the middle ages A state of affairs exists today to day in the city of new york which is able here we are living in a civil iced country every mans man s liberty is guaranteed by the constitution yet citizens as they walk our streets are in greater peril than the innab tants of terror stricken russia take a poi ce official of capt clinton s type his oaly notion of the law is brute force and the night stick A bully by nature aman a man of the coarsest instincts and enormous physical strength he loves to play the tyrant in bis his pre he poses as a kind of czar and fondly imagines he has the power to administer the law itself by nis brow beating tactics intolerable un der anglo saxon government he is turning our police force into a gang of ruffians who have the city terror stricken in order to further his ical ambitions he stops at nothing he ile lets the guilty escape when influx ence he cant can t resist is brought to bear but in order to keep up his rec ord with the department he lie makes ar rests without the slightest justi fica tion to secure convictions he manu fractures tac fac tures with the aid of his detec tives all kinds of perjured evidence to paraphrase a well known saying his motto Is convict honestly it if you can but convict it is outrageous said mr jef fries no one can approve such methods of course in dealing with the arimina population of a great city they cannot wear kid gloves but capt cl anton anton certainly goes too far what is the specific complaint on which the suit is based capt clinton replied the judge made the mistake of persecuting a young woman who happened to be the daughter of a wealthy client of mine one of his detect detectives nes arrested he on a charge of shoplifting the girl mind you is of excellent family and irreproachable character my client and his lawyer tried to show capt clinton that L 1 had made a serious blunder but he brazened it out cl lm ingon ing on the stand that the girl was an old offender of course he was forced at last to admit his mist mistake ake and the girl went tree free bit b it think of the lium humiliation illation and mental anguish she underwent it was simply a repetition ot of his old tactics A condic tion no matter at what cost what do you hope to bring about by this s ata arouse public indignation and it if possible get got capt clinton dismissed from the force his record is none too savory charges of graft have been made against him time and time again but so far nothing has been proved to day he Is a man of wealth on a comparatively small salary do you suppose his money could have come to him 7 9 in another corner of the salon stood dr bernstein the celebrated psychologist the center of an excited crowd of enthusiastic admirers alicia approached a group of chat bering women each was more blab brately dressed than her neighbor and loaded down with rare gems rhey at once stopped talking as their hostess came up it was so good of you to come said alicia effusively to a fat woman with impossible blonde hair and a rouged face I 1 want to introduce dr bernstein to you oh ch I 1 shall be delighted smiled the blonde gushingly she added how perfectly exquisite you look tonight my dear do you think so soa said alicia pleased at the clumsy flattery your dress is stunning and your tiara simply gorgeous raved another your musicales are always so de exclaimed a third at that moment mr air jeffries Jett rles caught hie his wife by the arm and drew her at to some newcomers with a laugh she left the group and hurried toward the door directly she was out of earshot the three women be gan whispering t she terribly ex claimed the blonde ane cheek of auch such a par venue to war wear that tiara her face Is au all made up too said another these affairs of hers are awfully stupid don dont t you think so soa piped the third yes they bore everybody to death said the blonde she s ambitious and likes to think she Is a social lead er I 1 only come here because it amuses me to see what tool fool she makes of herself fancy a woman of her age marrying a man old enough to be her father by the by I 1 don t see her beau here tonight to night you mean that scamp robert un derwood 9 isn t it perfectly scandalous the may a be he dances after hera im sur mr M r jeffries Jet fries allows him to come to the house maybe there s been a row per haps that explains why he s not here to night it a s the first time I 1 ve known him absent from one of her musi cales he hes s conspicuous by his absence po do you know what I 1 heard the other bouther day I 1 was told that under underwood hid had again been caught cheating at cards and summarily expelled from the club kicked out so to speak I 1 m not at all surprised I 1 always had ma m doubts about him he in it deuced a friend of mine to buy a pic pie ture a 4 got a tremendous price for it on the alse false representation that it was a genuine corot my friend found 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 0 the room a couple were discussing mr jeffries as he stood talking with judge brewster did you notice how mr air jeffries ha has aged recently 7 he no longer seems seem the same man no wonder after all the trouble he s had ot of course you know what a disappointment bis his son turned outa A scamp I 1 understand married a chorus girl and all that sort ol 01 thing not exactly but almost aa as bad the girl was a waitress or something like that in t s restaurant she s very common her father died in prison you can imagine the blow to old jet 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 sha was leaning on the arm ot of a tall handsome man with a dark van dyke be ber rl who are you discussing with such Interest 7 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 piled plied courteously the fame of judge brewster has spread to every state in the union A taint faint smile spread over the face of the famous lawyer as he extended his hand I 1 ive ve often heard of you too doc tor I 1 ve been reading with great in terest your book experimental apsy cholody do you know he went on earnestly there s a lot in that we have still much to learn in that direction I 1 think said dr bernstein quiet ly that were we re only on the threshold of wonderful discoveries pleased to find that her two distin gulshen 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 we 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 th thit lt it could ever be applied to our practical everyday life but of late we have made remarkable strides A al though it is a comparatively new science you will probably be aston dished to learn that there are today to day in 10 the united states 50 psychological laboratories that is to say work shops fully equipped with every device known tor for the probing of the hu man brain in my laboratory in cali fornia alone I 1 have as many as awen ty rooms hung with electric wires and equipped with all the necessary in st chronoscopes kymograph and ergo graphs in st which enable us to meas ure and record the human brain as accurately as the Ber bernillon Bertl tillon llon system really you astonish me ex claimed the judge this is most in tei esting think of laboratories sole iv devoted to delving into mysteries of the human brain it ie Is wonderful he ile was silent for a moment then he said it is quite plain I 1 think that psychology can prove most useful in medicine it is I 1 take it the very foundation of mental healing but what else would it do for humanity 7 for instance can it help me the lawyer dr bernstein smiled you gentlemen of the taw law have a 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 biti ess egg you can tell with almost scientific accuracy it 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 it if by your skill in psychological observation you could convince the jury that your client who was about to be convicted on cir cum evidence alone was really innocent of the crime of which he was charged why sir the road which psychology opens up to the lawa lawer er la Is well nigh boundless don dont t you use the Ber bernillon Bertl tillon llon system to measure the body don t you rely on thumb prints to identity identify the hand how do you know that we psychologists are not able today to day to test the individual dif ferencek tere feren nees ces of mena TO BE CONTINUED |