"You are only making it worse!" declared the court severely. "Proceed with your examination."
"Very well, Your Honor!" replied Mr. Tutt, his lips trembling with well-simulated indignation. "Now, sir, who instigated this miserable deception--I beg Your Honor's pardon! Who put you up to this game--I mean, this course of conduct?"
"Did you ever hear of the United Association of Veterinaries of the Greater City of New York--sometimes referred to as The Horse Leeches' Union?" asked Mr. Tutt insinuatingly.
"I've heard of some such organization," he admitted. "But I never heard it was called a Horse Leeches' Union."
"Didn't one of its officers come to you and say that unless something was done to reduce competition they'd have to go out of business--owing to the decrease in horses in New York?"
"I don't remember," answered Brown slowly. "One of 'em may have said something of the sort to me. But that's my business!"
"Yes!" roared Mr. Tutt suddenly. "It's your business to pretend you're a doctor when you're not, and you walk the streets a free man; and you want to send my client to Sing Sing for the same offense! That is all! I am done with you! Get down off the stand! Do not let me detain you from the practise of your unlicensed profession!"
"Mr. Tutt!" again admonished His Honor as the lawyer threw himself angrily into his chair. "This really won't do at all!"
"I beg Your Honor's pardon--a thousand times!" said Mr. Tutt in tones so humble and sincere that he almost made the angel-faced baboon believe him.
I should like to go on and describe the whole course of Danny Lowry's trial item by item, witness by witness, and tell what Mr. Tutt did to each. But I can't; there isn't room. I can only dwell upon the tactics of Mr. Tutt long enough to state that at the conclusion of the case against Daniel Lowry, wherein it was clearly, definitely and convincingly established that Danny had been practising veterinary medicine for a long time without the faintest legal right, the lawyer rose and declared emphatically to the jury that his client was absolutely, totally and unquestionably innocent, as they would see by giving proper attention to the evidence he would produce--so that he would not take up any more of their valuable time in talk.