"
"You said in your letter that the courts were so slow and the
lawyers so--"
"Yes, so cold, so technical. They do not seem to realise that a
human life is at stake. With them it is almost like a game in
which we are the pawns. And sometimes I fear, in spite of what the
lawyers say, that without some new evidence, it--it will go hard
with him."
"You have not given up hope in the appeal?" asked Kennedy gently.
"It is merely on technicalities of the law," she replied with
quiet fortitude, "that is, as nearly as I can make out from the
language of the papers. Our lawyer is Salo Kahn, of the big firm
of criminal lawyers, Smith, Kahn
"Conine," mused Kennedy, half to himself. I could not tell whether
he was thinking of what he repeated or of the little woman.
"Yes, the active principle of hemlock," she went on. "That was
what the experts discovered, they swore. In the pure state, I
believe, it is more poisonous than anything except the cyanides.
And it was absolutely scientific evidence. They repeated the tests
in court.
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