"Now see here!" cried Marriott. "That isn’t fair, and you know it. You are trying to influence the jury, and I’m surprised that a lawyer of your ability and standing should resort to tactics so unprofessional--" Eades colored and was about to reply, but Marriott would not yield. "I say that such tactics are unworthy of counsel; they would be unworthy of the veriest pettifogger!" Eades flushed angrily. "Do you mean to charge--" he challenged. "Gentlemen, gentlemen!" Glassford warned them. "Address yourselves to the Court." Eades and Marriott exchanged angry and menacing glances. The jury looked on with a passivity that passed very well for gravity. At the risk of incurring the jurors’ displeasure, Marriott asked that they be excused while the question was debated, and Glassford sent them from the room. The legal argument began. Marriott had countless precedents to justify Glassford’s ruling in his favor, just as Eades had countless precedents to justify Glassford’s ruling in his favor, but to the spectators it all seemed useless, tedious and silly. A murder had been committed, they thought, and hence it was necessary that some one be killed; and there sat Archie Koerner--why wait and waste all this time? why not proceed at once to the tragic dénouement and decree his death? Glassford, maintaining a gravity, and as if he were considering all the cases Marriott and Eades were citing, and weighing them nicely one against the other, listened to the arguments all day, gazing out of the window at the scene so familiar to him. Across the street, in an upper room of a house, was a window he had been interested in for months. A woman now and then hovered near it, and Glassford had long been tantalized by his inability to see clearly what she was doing.