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“No, I mean her physical condition. Did you not think the nature of her
injuries warranted immediate medical attention?”
“What?”
“Didn’t you think she should have had a doctor, immediately?”
The witness said he never thought of it, he had never called a doctor to any of
his’n in his life, and if he had it would have cost him five dollars. “That all?” he
asked.
“Not quite,” said Atticus casually. “Mr. Ewell, you heard the sheriff’s
testimony, didn’t you?”
“How’s that?”
“You were in the courtroom when Mr. Heck Tate was on the stand, weren’t
you? You heard everything he said, didn’t you?”
Mr. Ewell considered the matter carefully, and seemed to decide that the
question was safe.
“Yes,” he said.
“Do you agree with his description of Mayella’s injuries?”
“How’s that?”
Atticus looked around at Mr. Gilmer and smiled. Mr. Ewell seemed
determined not to give the defense the time of day.
“Mr. Tate testified that her right eye was blackened, that she was beaten
around the—”
“Oh yeah,” said the witness. “I hold with everything Tate said.”
“You do?” asked Atticus mildly. “I just want to make sure.” He went to the
court reporter, said something, and the reporter entertained us for some minutes
by reading Mr. Tate’s testimony as if it were stock-market quotations: “. . .
which eye her left oh yes that’d make it her right it was her right eye Mr. Finch I
remember now she was bunged.” He flipped the page. “Up on that side of the
face Sheriff please repeat what you said it was her right eye I said—”
“Thank you, Bert,” said Atticus. “You heard it again, Mr. Ewell. Do you have
anything to add to it? Do you agree with the sheriff?”
“I holds with Tate. Her eye was blacked and she was mighty beat up.”
The little man seemed to have forgotten his previous humiliation from the
bench. It was becoming evident that he thought Atticus an easy match. He
seemed to grow ruddy again; his chest swelled, and once more he was a red little