"Nasah! dat I didn't!"
"Do you know that if you swear a lie"
"I ain't swar no lie!" Isaac interrupted with religious fervour. "I'se de Lord's Sanctified One, sah. I ain't done no sin since I got sanctification. Yassah, praise God!"
"Don't you know," repeated the lawyer, "that if you swear to a lie on that witness stand you can be sent to the penitentiary for perjury?"
"I knows dey ain't gwine sen' me dar—I knows dat," Isaac said with a grin, and his Negro acquaintances in the jury box laughed.
The lawyer changed his line of questions.
"You say you saw John Graham strike the death-blow?"
"Yassah, I see 'im wid dese very eyes."
"Were you close enough to hear what was said?"
"Yassah, I wuz right dar by de open winder."
"What did he say?"
"Des ez he raise de knife he say, "I got you now, you d Black Radical 'Publican!"
"You swear that you heard him say that he killed the Judge because he was a Republican?"
"Yassah! dat's what de Ku Kluxes kill 'em all fur, sah!"
Larkin shuffled uneasily, bent again in conference with Steve who rose immediately and asked for an adjournment of two hours.
