| Show i 4 SYNOPSIS hoard hoa rd jeffries Jeff rles bankers son che he ovil influence of robert underwood a fellow student at tale yale leads a I 1 fe of 0 dissipation marries the dangl ter of a A ho d ed in prison and Is dis on ov ned by his father he lie tr es to get work and alrid tails fails A former college chum makes 9 business proposition to howard which requires 2 cash and howard houard is broke robert underwood who bad had been re pulsed V u llred by howard a wife annie in his college t ee days ard had once been engaged to alicia howard a step moti er I 1 as apartments at the Ast Astr ruria urla and is ap paret itly in prosperous circumstances howard recalls a 0 loan to underwood that remains unpaid and decides to ask vm i r the f 1 e needs underwood U derwood ta taklo kine advantage of his intimacy intimacy with mrs jeffrees Jeff efries rles sr becomes a sort of social highwayman D sc his true char meter rhe denies him the house CHAPTER IV the richly decorated reception rooms moms brilliantly illuminated with soft incandescent I 1 gats artistically arranged behind banks ot of flowers were vere filled with people in the air wae was the familiar buzz always present in a room where each pei son Is trying to speak at the same time on all sides one heard fragments of inept condei bation so good of you to comel come how well youre you re looking my dear my husband oh he s at the club playing poker as usual he lie hats hat s mu ie ic 1 I 1 ve such a tei ter fold rold fro trouble uble with ser bats I 1 should isay AAY so I 1 bounced my cook this morn ing arent these affairs awfully tire aa I 1 was so glad to come I 1 always ewon your musicales dr bernstein coming 1 how per factly delightful III ask him for his autograph what s 7 9 something to do with religion I 1 rethink haven t we been having dreadful weather I 1 saw you at the opera t she look beet 9 oh I 1 think its just lovely people now arrived in quick sices and forming little group the room soon presented an animated scene the women in their smart gowns and he the men in their black coats mad mada a pleasing picture my dear mrs jeffries Jeff iries how do you do this evening 7 exclaimed a rich deep adeep voice the hostess turned to greet an el derly and distinguished looking man who had just entered directly be 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 anecks 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 electric chair richard brewster was a fine ex ample of the old school statesman lawyer of the henry clay type he I 1 belonged to that small class of public men who are independent of all coteries whose oni ambition is to serve their country well nho ho know a ino other duty than that dictated by ther their oath and conscience A bril tallant and forceful orator there was sno mo office in the gift of the nation that might not have been his for the ask ing but he had no taste tor 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 this matchless oratory and un answer able logic he won case after case for hta his clients and it is a tribute to his name to record the plain fact that in all career he never championed a cause of which he need be ashamed powerful ful financial interests had at tempted ta 9 secure his services by of tera of princely retainers but with out bout success lie ile fought the trusts bit terly every time he found them op tp pressing his profession alicia advanced with extended hand this is indeed kind judge she ex claimed with a gracious smile I 1 hardly dared hope that my poor musi must fdale would be so honored the old lawyer smiled good humor edly as hp replied gallantly 1 I don t know much about music td turn in I 1 came to see you looking around he added you ve got a nice place here he spoke in his characteristic man ner short nervous explosive sen bences which had often terrified his opponents in court lawyers are such flatterers laughed alicia as she nervously fanned be roelf and looked around to see if guests were were watching T awyers only flatter when they to interrupted mr jeffries Jeff rles wio who siad had just joined the group A aia wa turned to greet a new arrival and nd the r continued chatting his host I 1 suppose you 11 take a rest now elfter y imir victory said th thea IL 1 1 I t 1 t A 09 1 TIA D byr ts CHARLES KLEIN C AD ARTHUR HORNBLOW illustrations BY RAY WALTER 1909 IM DY G W 1 D LL N CHAN 01 25 1 44 N Z 1 I don t know much about music m rn judge brewster shook his head dubiously no sir we lawyers never rest we can t no sooner is one case Us posed of than another crops up to claim our attention the trouble 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 Is lawless so youre you re preparing another case ehe said mr jeffries Jeff rles interested what is it a secret oh no answered the lawyer the newspapers will be full of it in a 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 nowa now the lawyer looked at his client in surprise why my dear sir you must have seen by the papers been going on in our city of late the papers have been full of it police brutality illegal arrests 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 man mans s liberty is guaranteed by the constitution yet citizens as they a alk our streets are in greater peril than the inhabitants of terror stricken russia take a po lice official of capt clinton s type his only notion of the law Is brute force orce and the night stick A bully by nature a man aman of the coarsest instincts and enormous physical strength he loves to play the tyrant in his pre cinet he poses as a kind of czar and arid 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 leal ical ambitions he stops at nothing he lets the guilty escape when influx ence he can cant t resist is brought to bear but in order to keep up his rec ord with the department he makes ar rests without the slightest justi fica tion to secure convictions be he manu fractures fac tures with the aid of his detec tives all kinds of perjured evidence to paraphrase pari phrase a well known saying his motto Is convict honestly if you can but convict it is outrageous said mr jef fries no one can approve such suck methods of course in dealing with the climina population of a great city they cannot wear kid gloves but capt clinton certainly goes too far what Is the specific complaint on chich 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 de detectives teethes arrested he on a charge of shoplifting the girl mind you is of excellent family and irreproachable character my client and bis his lawyer tried to show capt clinton that L had made a serious blunder but he brazened it out clim cl im ing on the stand that the girl was an old offender of course he was forced at last to admit his mistake i and the girl went free b t think of the humiliation and menial mental anguish she underwent it was simply a repetition of his old tactics A condic tion no matter at what cost what do you hope to bring about by this s ait arouse public indignation and if possible get 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 today to day he is a man of wealth on a comparatively small salary do you suppose money could have come to him honestly 7 9 in III another corner of the salon stood dr bernstein the celebrated psychologist the center of an excited crowd of enthusiastic admirers alicia approached a group ot of chat bering women each was more blab brately dressed than her neighbor and loaded down with rare gems they at once stopped talking as their hostess came up it was so good of you to come said alicia effusively to a tat fat woman with impossible blonde hair and a rouged face I 1 want to introduce dr bernstein to you oh I 1 shall be delighted smiled the blonde gushingly she added how perfectly exquisite you look tonight my imy dear do you think so soa said alicia pleased at the clumsy flattery your dress is stunning and your tiara simply gorgeous raved another lour om musicales musi ales are always so de exclaimed a third at that moment mr jeffries Jeff iries caught hie irlia 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 ove ex claimed the blonde ane cheek of a ich a par venue to wear that tiara her face Is all made up too said another these affairs of hers here are awfully stupid don 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 a fo fool ol 01 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 7 isn t it perfectly scandalous the way he dances after her I 1 im in sur mr jeffries Jeff rles allows him to come to the house mayba there s been a row per hapa haps that explains why he s not here to night it s the first time I 1 ve known him absent from one of her musi must cales he hes s conspicuous by his absence do you know what I 1 heard the other dayt day I 1 was told that underwood had again been caught cheating at cards and summarily expelled from the club kicked out so to speak I 1 in m not at all surprised I 1 always had ms doubts about him he ile ID lit deuced a friend of mine to buy a pic pie ture a ai 1 I got a tremendous price for it on the raise ise representation that it was a ne corot my friend found out afterward that he had been duped proceedings were threatened but un derwood managed to hush the aff by returning part of the money in another part of the room a were discussing mr jeffries as stood talking with judge brewster did you notice how mr jeffries Jeff rles aged 7 9 he no longer the same man no wonder after all the he s had of course you know what disappointment his son turned out outa A scamp I 1 understand married a chorus girl and all that sort of thing not exactly but almost as bad the girl was a waitress or something like that in a restaurant she s very common her father died in prison you can imagine the blow 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 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 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 I 1 ive ve often heard of you too doc doe tor I 1 ive ve been reading with great in terest your book experimental apsy cholody do you I 1 now 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 AC discoveries pleased to find that her two distin gushed guests were congenial alicia left them to themselves and joined her other guests yes said the lawyer musingly man has studied tor for centuries the mechanism of the body but he has neglected entirely the mechanism oi 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 that it could ever be applied to our practical everyday life but of late we have made remarkable strides al at though it is a comparatively new science you will probably be aston dished to learn that there are today to day in the united states 50 psychological laboratories that is to say work shops fully equipped with every de vice nice known for the probing of the hu man brain in my laboratory in call cali fornia alone I 1 have as many as awen ty rooms hung with electric wires and equip equipped ped with all the thet 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 bernillon Ber tillon system feally really you astonish me ex claimed the judge this is most in te lesting think of laboratories sole ly devoted to delving into mysteries of the human brain it Is wonderful I 1 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 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 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 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 lie he was charged why sir the road which psychology opens up to the lawyer Is well nigh boundless don t you use the bernillon Ber tillon system to measure the body dont don t you rely on thumb p ints inta to identify the hand P how do you know that we psychologists are not able today to day to test the individual dif ferencek teren feren ces of men mena TO BE continued |
