6 Kilt goes on trial for Murder. There is one witness whose testimony would not only save him but clear his name. His wife, vain, shallow, wicked. and wanton, depraved and comcienceless has fled and the man faces a. Jury which finally sets him free, because of the ci rcumstanc s but leaves the taint still upon him the matter of who fired the shot uncleared. I-blt becomes a desparing misanthropv, He loses all faith in his fellow man. fitilpziitl Although the law had set him free, tra blot is still upon his name and fame, He asks himself into an old home he owns in the Bronx, and dismissing all servants lives like a. hermit there. He roams about, refusing to speak to any one, careless about his looks and indifferent to what is going on about him. In a. few short years he is tnxguttnmsx remembered vaguely, not as the

elpquent and great lawyer, but as "'J.‘1at rnuzdercr who got off".

His only friend is Dr. Carpenter, win for years has urged the man to ret.

return to active legal practice and face the World openly. His wife has ended finally in the psychopathic ward of Bellevue, and from her at the end Dr. Carpenter has extracted 8. complete confess ion. This however, Holt is indifferent to, and refuses to have published, declaring that he is buried under ashes.

Laura hears of this singular case and is troubled about it. Dr. Carpenter tells her 113 will try to induce Holt to reenter active practice by taming up her case.

He sends word to Holt that he wishes to see him, and on a. grey day in march Holt leaves the Bronx land comes down to see the doctor. He is admitted by La:ura., and scowls at her because of her

yitying scrutiny of him. His appearance is unpreposessing, for.

Holt is utterly careless of himself in these days.

Inside he finds his old Dr. friend sufferibg from a.