"Mr. Howe, do you find this man guilty as charged in the indictment?" asked the clerk.
"I do," responded the juror.
Twelve times the clerk of the court, calling each man by name, asked this question, and one by one the jurors stood up and answered:
"I do."
CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE.
THE LAST APPEAL
One raw morning late in April, Mark Leanard, who worked at Kirby's lumber-yard, drove his team of big grade Percherons up to Kirby's office by the railroad tracks.
"What's doing?" he asked of Kirby's clerk.
The clerk handed him a slip of paper.