112 THE TRIAL.

“0, the lawyers always call the men they
are speaking for in court, their clients.”

“Do they?” said Rollo. “ Well, go on.”

«“¢They have not proved it,’ said Mr.
Sparr. ‘Captain James may have been mis-
taken in the man that he saw before Mr.
Stone’s house; and besides, if my client
was actually there, it does not prove, by any
means, that he broke into the house and
stole the spoons. He had as cood a right to
be in the street at that hour, as Captain
James himself.

«“<¢Then, as to the spoons which he tried
to sell Mr. Case, it is not certain at all that
they were the same spoons that Mr. Stone
lost. He admits that there were no marks
upon them, and he also admits that it was
very common for people to bring him old
spoons to sell. ‘I'here were a thousand ways
by which my client might have come by old
spoons honestly. Even the thief who stole
these, might have sold them to him, and he
not know they were stolen.’ ”

“Yes; but he said he got them from his
own house, and he had not any house,”
interrupted Rollo.

“Yes; but I am only telling you what