Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-05-23

Oh how could is .s Ri: ssmp:s e' Vas Rlf
mean be wished to apologize and make it up
you i say i told you that Mr: Crisp denied on
being the author OF that?''
:, "sayr' she cried fercely. "I should say be-
remember that thought it odd that be made
Strange tss snoush he
was half an hour after the appointed time
ne did not seem aware Of it-or say he was
F, Peters sat thinking deeply. '1t,s a cipher q
child could read. he murmured to himself
| And any one reading previous advertisements
could have identified the Ernest very likely. Is
it possible that some one having learned, no
this girl has done this to divert suspicion nom
himself him If Unlikely; but stu possible. Dc
any one being acquainted with these cipher
NO. Not through me-" she answered quickly
| but remember Ernest saying that young Mr..
Parkman knew all about me, and had been very
kind. But he cannot have anything to do with
NO the detective answered briskly; "but
ne may have told some one else. must go to
ask him. We win lose no time" he added
G fras III =, Your young gentleman shall be
or hone st then hs
OF any necessity for using one.
On the tramcar Peters said to himself,
/
| amotive for numbering Critchlow, and secondly,
q knowledge, however gained, of the relations
nes Hdri ne 1 gaa
fancied the girl and tried to decoy her there
and inis SS0gns and was found out
idea!' o'' '--'''' A'' 40 d D0"
/ "Are you engaged to marry the accused?"
| This was not the first question put to the wit
ness, but it was the first that promised toaf1ord
In the iustice-room, the slightest return for the
| trouble they had taken. The city were talking
| of nothing but the CritchlOw tragedy: and even
| IN Cheapside the excitement was plainly visible.
| Every one who could win an entrance and was
| not engaged elsewhere, was there. 1t was ru-
mored that the matter now as clear as the
| murder was diabolical, and that the young man
| would certainly be committed for trial to-day.
| Among the persons pointed at, and scanned and
| sketched by the crowd in that close green
| painted court, with the one window and the
| skylight. was Mr. Parkman and close observers
noted that his eyes would now and again turn
| from wandering over the court to cast II look OF
anxiety, of expectation, almost of dread to-
But listen. The witness has answered the
question bravely. 81 am
"And he was in the habit of communicating
with you by cipher advertisements similar to
the one producer
"Did he communicate with you by an adver-
tisement appearing in the Standard on the Fri
day before the murdcr?H
"Were you,' said the counsel smiling. ..under
the impression last Saturday that the advertise
ment emanated from him?'
Il was. But you must let me explain" And
with great steadiness she stated her reasons for
so thinking, and what she had understood the
message to mean, and why she did not now
| think Ernest the author of IT. This caused {;
gfea, sensation. The strange cipher advertise
ment was a fact quite new To the general public.
DO understand you to think, then, Miss
Maunder, that the person whoever he was who
| inserted this advertisement was also the mur
dcrer.'
81 don't know" she faltered. Then with cour
age: ~ es do think So
lie smiled calmly a. he looked around 1t was
evident he thought nothing OF the girls theory
but believed Cri sp to te both author and muir
ueTer. diners IN court also smiled and shook
their heads. Her idea was too COMPLEX and
iai-fetched for them. They could not swallow it,
i'll vulgar phrase.
She was taken then through the events of the
saturday afternoon, and examined particularly
as 10 the prisoners statements about the de-
ceased AIterward the solicitor FOR the defense,
Wen known to be employed by Mr.. Parknan,
drew from her all that might tell in the prison.
Sr iavor: ard then, casting one long, loving
look OF comfort ut her lover, Ethel sat down
She had told the truth; she had perfect trust
now in the wisdom I'll the law
Two or three uniin portant witnesses followed
me lnedica! evidence. succeeded these. and the!
Mr. Pifkman was called. As he took OF his
@ioye many syinpathising glanccs were cas-. at
his handsome figure AMI grave face What ;,
/ troubl9 and annoy ance il must have been to
him! What loss To be deprived of his two CHEF
employees al once! Aud then how rich he was
Stld to be- and almost fashionable too fGr was
he not going To be married IL the Hon. Syives-
| ira Hautoan? Even the Lord Mayor could
hardly refrain from leaning forward in his great
OAK chair To look his sympathy.
"!he prisoner has been a clerk in the employ
lnent of your firm Tor nearly fourteen wears Mr.
Pitrkinan:' That was the frs: question OF any
interest
..He has II. has been "A most faithful STEADY,
and upright man in all his dealings with Us"
rms wa gallant testimony, but what could
1t aN'i a:.' nst i;.c;s' Il oniy evoked look OF
warm gratitude rom the prisoner Mr. Park
man then went Oh To tell what he knew of the
differences between critchlow and the prisoner,
ana the uniriendly mention OF the cashier
which Crisp had nl,'ie in their last converse.
| ton but ne tP.d this so reluctantly thlt the
fXaiIiining btrris.er was struck by his bias in
The prisoner favor, and asked him with q
smile: no do you think That the same person
Inserted The advertisement and committed the
The witness paused: it was clear that he had
no a2not ti;,t ms pr1tege was guilty OF the one
hand over his brow Then he said. II do ''''
And SO do l." said the counsel dryly and was
about to sit down with that quip in his mouth
when there was Il hustle at the door. Some
glanced that way iinpatient!y, and some ex-
pectantly: what was the expression of Mr. Park
man $ face it was hard to say. 1t was almost a
battied, hunted look that came into his light
blue eyes, and the hand which he raised to
,rf"e his n no., scarsely hid an odd con-
burlJ nan pushed lis way through the crowd
to the tabie. He seemed to be some one of i'm
Sitting down, aud lent a willing ear to his Whis
per-. Then hurried and seemingly exciting
con ference went OH between these Two and the
solicitor ior the defense and one or two others
SO exciting that expectation was raised to a |
very high pitch, and at length tn Lord Mayor |
unable To bear it longer, said: Have Won any
more questions for this witness, Mr.. Banck- |
Worth?'
Thus recalled to himself, Mr. Banckwortb rose |
from his stopping position and seemed to hest |
tate. FINALLY ne said, with an air OF reluctance
Yes, my Lord, fear / have. Mr.. Parkman |
did understand you give it as your opinion |
that whoever inserted that advertisement com |
mitted this murder?''
n strange pause, then, in an equally strange |
hOarSe tone, Yes"
lis that" holding up Russi leather blotting
case filled with green blotting paper, 1.-The blot
ting case you use in your library at Richmondo''
1t sounded, apart from the sudden production
of the case, harmless question enough And |
yet how was it that through all that crowded |
court every one felt the terrible nature of the |
silence which followed. Was that ordinary
looking case a gorgons head, that at sight of it
the perspirat1on should spring in great beads to
the witness forehead and his mouth should |
writhe in vain attempt TO speak. He couldn't |
He couldn't In the end he only nodded
"Then can you explain" the lawyer asked SOL |
EMMY, how it happens that upon a page of this |
blottilR paper there appears in printed charac- |
ters reverse impression of the latter part of
this advertisements"
The crisis had come, the worst had happoned |
ana yet even now some cool plausible reason
might avail him. Now was the time for ready
brain and steady pulse. Now: but now all these
were wanting! He glared round him for a mo- |
ment on the sea OF faces, grasped wildly at his |
Amid q thrill of such sensation as few in that |
court had ever experienced they bore him out |
to an adjoining room. But he was dead before
they could bring q doctor to him That me- |