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She seemed very nervous, twisting her handkerchief and looking wildly from one side of the room to the other. Amos got up and without a word to Andy edged through the milling crowd just in time to enter the anteroom as a bailiff closed the door. Andy, his eyes fixed on the judge, did not at first notice his absence. THE wheels of justice began to turn ' again. Andy became more and more dejected as Lawyer Collins and Lawyer Smith alternately examined various witnesses. But astonishment showed on his face when he heard Lawyer Collins ask the Kingfish if he ever heard that Madam Queen had been married three times and he sat up on the edge of his chair when the Kingfish replied — "Yessah, I believe I IS heerd dat." Andy turned to Amos — but Amos was gone! Testimony droned on. The day seemed interminable to Andy. At two o'clock Amos suddenly appeared, slid into the chair next to Andy and began to whisper excitedly with Lawyer Collins whose eyes popped like two fried eggs. Without a word to Andy, they both whisked out of the room and as the door to a waiting room opened Andy caught a glimpse of them talking with a policeman and the man who had followed the woman who fainted. Half an hour later Andy gulped when Lawyer Collins bustled in, sat down by his side and nudged him in the ribs. "Don't you give up yet, Andy." But Andy could not shake off his pessimism. "Looks like dey got me, Lawyeh Collins. I'll be poundin' rock for the rest o' my days." The crowd, too, had long since sensed victory for Madam Queen, who was primping and smiling in anticipation of her expected triumph. But just as Lawyer Smith finished questioning Brother Crawford about Andy's flight from the Kingfish's party, Lawyer Collins requested permission of the Court to put Amos on the stand again. Lawyer Smith's eyes narrowed as the judge consented. Amos, with an expression of great gravity, took his seat on the stand and stared hard at Madam Queen. Then, prompted by Lawyer Collins, Amos touched off the fuse of his bombshell. First, he reminded the judge of Madam Queen's sudden fainting spell just after she took the stand on the first day of the trial. "I jes' couldn't git it in my head why Madam Queen fainted so easy so I done make inquiries," he explained to the judge. Then he called His Honor's attention to the lady who had fainted that morning. "Two faintin's in two days is too much," explained Amos. "Dere's a reason for ev-thing, Judge, if you knows where to look for it — an' I looked." Amos suddenly stood up and pointed a finger at Madam Queen. "Madam Queen fainted," he almost shouted, '"cause she done seen her husban' in de court room that fust day. And that lady fainted this morning 'cause Madam Queen's husban' was her husban' first an' Madam Queen done take him away — an' still got him. An' when she seen Madam Queen up dere about to win dis here case it was just too much — and she faints — an' her husban' an' Madam Queen ain't never been divorced. Yo' Honor, dat is Madam Queen's second husband oveh there with that policeman. An' if whut I foun' out from de lady who fainted this mornin' ain't de truth — den why is Madam Queen fainted again? Look at her. She's cold." The courtroom was in an uproar. Shouts of men and shrill cries of women rose over the steady pound of the judge's gavel. Madam Queen's family seemed flabbergasted. Once again Madam Queen was carried into the judge's chambers where it took an hour to revive her. Lawyer Collins was jubilant as he pounded the astounded Andy on the back. "Boy — pahdon me, Mister Brown — yo' wins. An' — an' — dis is de faintinest trial I was ever, ever in." Andy's eyes were popping. "Yo' mean tell me Madam Queen had herself a husban' aroun' all de time we was courtin'?" "No, no," explained Lawyer Collins. "We done find out her husban' skip and go to sea several years ago an' finally Madam Queen jus' think he gone for good. Den someone tol' her he had died two years ago and she don't never check up on it. But he come back from de Bahamas two weeks ago. He work there. So when she sees him right here in de court room — she just fall plunk on de floor. And when that missin' husban's fust wife come face to face wid Madam Queen — she kicked up, too. Lucky yo' didn't marry Madam Queen, Andy, yo'-all would-a been in a sitty-ation." Andy laughed — actually laughed for the first time in seven weeks and turned to face a delirious crowd of spectators that suddenly surged around him and Amos. "Boy," he said, "I always knowed Madam Queen was startin' somepin' she wasn't goin' to be able to finish." Facing the Music (Continued from page 7) These fall nights in NBC's Town Hall Tonight every Wednesday you hear the Merry Macs and their aptly termed "bounce rhythm." But The Merry Macs are still without any real musical training. Yet this amazing quartet of songsters (the added starter is Helen Carroll, vice-president) has rolled up an enviable record. They start their 66 second year with Fred Allen on October 4. They played four consecutive weeks at the New York Paramount, sandwiched between the nation's top dance bands — and became the first singing outfit in the theater's history to be signed again immediately to return at will. Their Decca records are best-sellers, and many a phonograph has been worn to a frazzle RADIO AND TELEVISION MIRROR