M. Zola.--“I ask your pardon. I thought that I had permission to address the jurors. But I will address myself to you. What I have to say will be as well said. I am a writer; I am not accustomed to public speaking; moreover, I am an extremely nervous being, and am liable to use words that ill express my thought. Undoubtedly I have expressed it ill, since I have been misunderstood. I am quoted as saying that I have placed myself above the law. Did I say that?” M. Labori.--“You said: ‘I have not to know the law at this moment.’” M. Zola.--“I meant to say, at any rate, that I do not revolt against this grand idea of the law. I submit to it completely, and from it I expect justice. I meant to say that my revolt was against the processes that find expression in all these quibbles raised against me, against the way in which I am prosecuted, against the limitation of the complaint to fifteen lines from my long letter of accusation; and these things I declare unworthy of justice. I say that these few lines are not to be taken and passed upon without regard to all that I have said. A writing is consecutive; phrases lead to phrases, ideas lead to ideas; and to fix upon a single thing therein because it brings me under the law is, I say, unworthy. That is what I say, and that is what I meant. I do not place myself above the law, but I am above hypocritical methods.” M. Labori.--“Bravo!” The Attorney-General.--“So, M. Labori, you give the signal for these bravos?” M. Labori.--“It is true, I said ‘Bravo;’ but frankly, it was the cry of my conscience.” M. Albert Clemenceau.--“There is one point beyond dispute,--that we are authorized to prove that M. Zola has accused the council of war of having committed an illegality. Well, I ask you how it is possible for us to prove this, if we do not begin by establishing that an illegality has been committed.” The court denied the motion of M. Labori, and the second witness was called,--M. Leblois, a lawyer of the appellate court. _Testimony of M. Leblois._ The Judge.--“M. Labori, what question do you desire me to put to the witness?” M. Labori.--“Will you ask M. Leblois at what date and under what circumstances he came into possession of the facts now within his knowledge concerning the Esterhazy case?” The court interposing no objection, M. Leblois made the following statement: