"I wouldn't take such an oath."
"Then you place your private opinions above the law, do you?"
"In this instance, I do. I don't believe in that law, and I won't help enforce it."
"You mean,"--Glassford was plainly angry--"that you wouldn't take an oath to enforce a law you didn't believe in?"
"That's just what I mean."
Glassford looked an instant at Holden as if trying to decide what he had better do with him for these heresies. Holden's blue eyes were steady; they returned Glassford's gaze, seeming scarcely to wink. And just then Eades, fearing the effect of the man's scruples on the jury, thought best to relieve the situation.
"We submit a challenge for cause," he said.
"Allowed," Glassford snapped. "We don't want such men as you on juries."
He whirled about in his chair, turned his back on Holden, and as Holden walked directly from the courtroom, the eyes of all followed him, with a strange interest in a man who was considered unfit for jury service because he had principles he would not forego.
"Samuel Walker," called Gard.