The lawyers for the defense made much of the fact that
Hobart had just left the Consolidated service after a disagreement with the
defendant and had been elected to the senate by his enemies, but the
impression made by his moderation and the fine restraint of his manner,
combined with his reputation for scrupulous honesty, was not to be shaken
by the subtle innuendos and blunt aspersions of the legal array he faced.
Nor did the young district attorney content himself with Hobart's
testimony. He put his successor, Mott, on the stand, and gave him a bad
hour while he tried to wring the admission out of him that Harley had
personally ordered the attack on the miners of the Taurus. But for the
almost constant objections of the opposing counsel, which gave him time to
recover himself, the prosecuting attorney would have succeeded.
Ridgway, meeting him by chance after luncheon at the foot of the hotel
elevator--for in a town the size of Avalanche, Waring had found it
necessary to put up at the same hotel as the enemy or take second best, an
alternative not to his fastidious taste--rallied him upon the predicament
in which he had found himself.
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