"You are the father of Roberta Alden?"
"Yes, sir."
"Now, Mr. Alden, just tell the jury how and under what circumstances it was that your daughter Roberta happened to go to Lycurgus."
"Objected to. Irrelevant, immaterial, incompetent," snapped Belknap.
"I'll connect it up," put in Mason, looking up at the Judge, who ruled that Titus might answer subject to a motion to strike out his testimony if not "connected up."
"She went there to get work," replied Titus.
"And why did she go there to get work?"
Again objection, and the old man allowed to proceed after the legal formalities had again been complied with.
"Well, the farm we have over there near Biltz hasn't ever paid so very well, and it's been necessary for the children to help out and Bobbie being the oldest——"
"Move to strike out!" "Strike it out."