Had Mr.Hartsook offered any explanations?
No, he hadn't.

Had he ever paid her any attention afterward?
No.

Ralph declined to cross-question Hannah.

To him she never seemed so fair as when telling the truth so sublimely.
Bronson now informed the court that this little trick of having the old soldier happen in, in the flick of time, wouldn't save the prisoner at the bar from the just punishment which an outraged law visited upon such crimes as his.

He regretted that his duty as a public prosecutor caused it to fall to his lot to marshal the evidence that was to blight the prospects and blast the character, and annihilate for ever, so able and promising a young man, but that the law knew no difference between the educated and the uneducated, and that for his part he thought Hartsook a most dangerous foe to the peace of society.