Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-09-20

sat there, occasionally walking about
and idly fiddling with tie odds and ends
Of machinery, which still lay Just as they
were when old Warren's body was dis
covered, until the deepening dusk pre-
vented his seeing clearly and he fell in-
TO a chair by the pine workable in q fit
Of abstracted musing. Half an hour
later he left the house, which was In old
Isaac's care pending the result of the
trial, with 3 light in his eyes and 8 smile
on his lips such as had not been seen
there for months.
f'Keep up your spirits old fellow, he
said to Paul when he visited him In his
cherries cell in the TOmbs next day. 81
think I have struck the right lead now,
but I'm going to keep it to myself until
/ am certain, and Paul, who had mo-
meutaFiIy reused from the aDathetic
state in which he had remained ever
since his arrest, could not get another
word, good, bad or Indifferent from his
friend, except one day Harold introduced
to him as q possible witness in his be
half DR.. EllendOrf, the celebrated Ger
man Rurlst.
Paul felt that he could find no fault
with any Of the witnesses against him
until old Isaac stepped feebly up and
ring as Pauls property and as been al
ways worn by him; he was questioned as
to the events OF the fatefuI night and
stated that after he had retired to his
bed, which was on the ground floor, he
had heard Paul, whose step he could not
fail to recognize, enter and 90 upstairs
to bed; with evident reluctance he went
on to say that an hour or so afterWard he
heard him descend, and enter his uncle's
room, that he heard the murmer of voices,
lasting half hour or so, followed by a
heavy fall, and, after a brief interval,
the exit from the room of Paul and his
passage up the stairs again toward his
bedroom. This part of the evidence
Paul of his own knowledge knew to be
inconsistent with the real facts, but he
was surprised when Mr.. EIlery, his
counsel, rose and began to cross-eXamine
the witness, whose agitation was painful
to behold, to find if his hearing was in
any way defective.
''I can hear better than many a young
er man, sir, was the answer, and on
this point Paul himself could have
backed the witness up, for he knew that
Isaac's sense of hearing was peculiarly
keen. He began to feel annoyed when
Mr.. EIlery harped on this question, evil
IDENTIFY wishing to prove that even if he
had been awake the old man could not
have heard what he described, and he
felt almost angry when he found that
the object in retaining DR.. EIIendOrf as
a witness was to obtain expert testimony
as to Isaac's auditory nerves. So when,
by permission of the judge, DIR. Ellen
dOrf after having been sworn, and stat
ing his profession and so forth, pro
duced the apparatus with which he
intended to experiment, PauIs patience
finally left him, and leaning over to Mr..
Esllery. he exclaimed:
''YOu're losing time and hurting my
case by this nonsense. Old Isaac can
hear better than you or me, as 1 happen
to know"
''Keep cool, Mr.. Harley, " was the an
sWer. owe are doing our best, and I
think are on the right track"
Meanwhile Dr.. EIIendOrf had pro
duced a square mahogany box about two
feet square, along the lid of it being cut
a slit about an inch WIdes prOtrudlng
through which was a long rubber tube,
terminating at the opposite end in Y
shaped piece, with fat black rubber
ear-piece on each of the branches.
These were carefully arranged by the
doctor over the ears of the witness Isaac,
and two wires leading from an electric
battery, which an assistant placed on
the table, were connected with two brass
knobs, on the end of the mahogany box.
Then something inside the box was
touched by the doctor and a whirIing
sound as of delicate machinery was
heard to proceed from within. Isaac
while all this was going on, sat with a
puzzled look of apprehension on his
wrinkled face, rendered almost ludicrOus
by the flaps of black rubber which GOV
cred his ears.
Poor old boy," thought Paul. GAS
if it were not bad enough for him to
have to testify against me, even if he is
mistaken, without tOrmenting him in
this ridiculous fashion, to no purpose. %
Suddenly he noticed the expression
on Isaac's face change, and a look of
deadly fear distOrt his features; he made
an attempt to raise his hand to seize
the apparatus which covered his ears,
but the doctor was too quick and forced
his hands down. The look of agony in
creased and a faint moan issued from
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