in regard to him at the repeated use of that name colored have you gone so far as to acknowledge your mistake he asked thrice in the last three minutes you have called him are you willing to admit that that is his name there was a wise look on the lawyer s wrinkled countenance yes he answered slowly i am obliged to admit it now then you have been mistaken all along mr shook his head his name ts and i have not been mistaken he repeated for that riddle a long explanation is necessary and i think should be given by mr in person perhaps he paused and consulted his watch perhaps it will be best to send for him now as things have taken such a turn and have it over with gray stared at his companion then you know where he is he asked women queer precisely he is in jail on what charge attempting to gray out of more than two hundred thousand dollars felt his brain growing light first had promised to save his wife to him and now he talked of recovering his lost fortune it surely was a dream it could not be reality i am going to send for at once continued and have you listen to his story right where you are it is not safe to let you go out of here with only a partial knowledge of the truth in more than one case a little learning is a dangerous thing will you promise not to allude to anything in connection with your wife while that man is in your presence because without that promise there is no use in bringing him after a moment s reflection agreed to the proposition and the lawyer several notes by various messenger boys who responded to his call the first response was from a who was to take a report of the conversation it was expected would and shortly afterwards two appeared leading a prisoner between them love gone astray chapter a cross examination except on the stage no man whose hands are and who is in the of officers of the law looks comfortable was not an exception to the rule but when he saw mr gray he put on an air of which he doubtless thought would conceal the agitation of his mind he nodded recognition and when his irons were removed at mr request rubbed his wrists with a and remarked that of that kind was not to his liking then when the had withdrawn into the outer office and he was left alone with the lawyer the and mr gray he settled himself easily in a chair and asked whether there was anything he could do to make the occasion more agreeable to all parties i have sent for you replied the quiet voice of mr in order that you may make whatever statement you think best before this gentleman indicating as to your connection with the estate your words will be taken down in and drawn up in the form of an to which should you wish you can make oath i offer you no for this you are to leave the future entirely to me as far as my action is concerned but if you think best to tell the truth in relation to the matter you now have an opportunity of doing so a there is something in the pushing of a s pencil over the pages of a deeply impressive to those who have occasion to know for the first time that their words are being with absolute precision i have already told you all there is to tell was s answer as he eyed the pencil what i ask then is that you repeat the statement for the benefit of mr gray and in the hearing of this secretary if you prefer to decline but to this instantly he was quite ready he said to answer all questions put to him m i thought you would be said with a grim smile now let me say one thing more let your answers refer wholly to the point at issue and not by any stray beyond it if you have anything further to say to mr gray or to any one let it remain until the has gone gray looked up gratefully as this suggestion was made for he had feared that in the course of the examination something might be uttered which he would rather third parties did not hear there was sufficient strain already upon his brain he was trying to rest on the assurance of the lawyer that his wife had not been false to him with this man though he could see no way to establish an innocence which he thought she had herself but whatever the truth of that matter the letter that had found in the papers of colonel as the author of her original fall which was enough to make his presence most hateful love gone astray to her husband buried his face in his hands and listened anxiously for the testimony to proceed what is your true name was the first question mr put to his witness was the ready answer christian name gray looked up astounded have you ever known any one by the name of yes two my father and my brother by a second marriage the lawyer had maintained that this man was named and yet that he was a fraud and a cheat already he had proved the truth of those in answer to then went on to tell how his father had contracted marriage with miss within a year of the death of his first wife and how the lady had died shortly after giving birth to her son the father was a fellow who left the boys in charge of a housekeeper being absent for months at a time the children attended school at their home in new south 