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"Oh, no, I wasn't!" she contradicted bluntly, with a singular
confidence of assertion. "Why, if the trial had been fair, I
shouldn't be here."
The harsh voice of Cassidy again broke in on the passion of the
girl with a professional sneer.
"That's another thing they all say."
But the girl went on speaking fiercely, impervious to the man's
coarse sarcasm, her eyes, which had deepened almost to purple,
still fixed piercingly on Gilder, who, for some reason wholly
inexplicable to him, felt himself strangely disturbed under that
regard.
"Do you call it fair when the lawyer I had was only a boy--one
whom the court told me to take, a boy trying his first case--my
case, that meant the ruin of my life? My lawyer! Why, he was
just getting experience--getting it at my expense!" The girl
paused as if exhausted by the vehemence of her emotion, and at
last the sparkling eyes drooped and the heavy lids closed over
them. She swayed a little, so that the officer tightened his
clasp on her wrist.
There followed a few seconds of silence.


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