Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-09-29

! could ride back to the lake, and no one would know that we had met" Allow me . moment, madam inter posed the judge again. "The inference l from your words is-the ostensible in ference-especially when viewed in con nection with the event which afterward took place-that you were acting with the deliberate design of waylaying Mir Henry Mainwaring, and being armed of either compelling him to do some ! thing or to agree to something i've do not know what, or in case of his re- fusal, or for whatever reason might seem to you sufficient. taking his life. say this is an allowable inference from your words. Is it what you intended to convey
 1t was ill my thoughts that might take his life" Sinfire answered, but other things were also possible. could not know what I should finally do until I had spoken to him and heard him speak. think now that I should prob ably not have killed him, but then he is dead, and one feels more gently toward the dead"
 Very well, madam replied the judge, scribbing some words on paper and then scratching his chin with his penholder. You may proceed. | T have told nearly all, she said Il searched for Henry Mainwaring but l did not find him. l once caught sight of some one thought was he. but it was his brother John. They must have al tered their original intention and watched in different places from those | they had at first determined on. The l body was found in a spot l had not i looked in. At last, as the dawn began ! to break, went back to the barn and saddlcd my horse and rode toward the ] lake. At that time the murder must have been done, and John Mainwaring and the groom, after carrying the body ! to the house had returned to the camp And presently the wagon came up, and joined the others, and they told me what had happened, but no one asked me how 1 chanced to be mounted and abroad so early. That is all"
 Pardon me. 1 have one more ques- ton to ask" said the lawyer. who held the derringer in his hands. Il think you said this pistol was in the same con dition as on that morning. Are you aware that it has been discharged and that the shell of the cartridge still re- mains in it:'
 At this announcement John, whose i face had frightened little during the previous few moments, suddenly turned white and leaned heavily against the back of his chair.
 "Yes, l know that" returned Sinfre quietly.
 "Hcw do you account for it:'
 As 1 was on my way back to the barn I saw rabbit crossing the path, and 1 fired at it. It was the impulse of a moment. and I was sorry directly aft i erward that l had killed the poor crea- i ture.'
 Tt Was an impulse that may have fatal consequences for you, madam, rejoiued ! the lawyer, while low muttering of 1 discordant feeling ran through the room. Your honor.' he continued, we have i treated this lady with every considera- l tiun, and she has been allowed to take | her own course in the story she has told. | We had witnesses ready to speak to scv- ! CrHl points. but the cynical frankness which has characterized the greater part of thc narrative to which you have just l listened renders their con irmation super | fuous. while as for the conclusion of the l tale, su manifestly artificial and out of 1 keeping with the rest. it will not, I think, i carry any weight of conviction with it. ! We have been told that the witness had 9 motive for enmity and hatred against | the deceased reaching back to q period autecedeut to her appearance ill this community, and her presentation of her self before us as the offspring of an Un- ! consecrated union, and therefore with out recognized social status. justifies tn i inference that in whatever may have | happened between her and the deceased he was not the only or the chief one to l blame. Be that as it may, she conceived i a malignant purpose against him. | Why should l concern myself to rC- l produce the fluent rignarolC uttered by 1 this solemIl legal fool: He spoke accord | ing to his light, but his light was dark | ness. He ended by proposing that Sin 1 fire should be committed for trial, with out further ceremony, on the charge of 1 the willful and premcditatcd murder of Henry Mainwari.- and it would doubt less have been SC ordered if ! had not arisen and statcd that 1 WIS prepared to make deposition of ihc graves; Impor- t2ncr, wflch would Ty.t q very different construction upon wl.;., had jus; been heard. The judge alyr:-:-J Iar pcrluis- S4b-l lO slN C t-lN ~ 2l III NtNN II NAt h accordance win wha, l had resolved ] upon the nj -hr before l .cuucstel b be ] sworn, and when tEt ulth had been ad- minis, rcd this l. what 1 said:
 Il do IUt prctcll 10 explain why the lady who has jU.l testified has willfullr laid herself open to charge of whicA 1 she is as innocent Is I am myself. IL k my businr>S only to prove that she is i1l- . ssf .lr,tl that l shall q iaN-,,-
 any doubt. As tu tine account she gives of her origin, something of it already 1 knew or suspected, and also that she was hostile to my broth,r Henry though the causes of that hostility l Was content to 1 conjecture. never asked her and she never told me what they were. l must reveal also what hitherto has been known 1 only tO her and mNself-that l have . loved this girl almost from the begin ming Gt our acquaintance, and Ill due time l had reason to believe that my love was returned. But no definite contract was made between Us, because it was first necessary that some conclusion should be reached in her relations with my brother. did not know what she intended as to that, and she probably did not know herself But on the night of ! which so much has been said we agreed
 to meet.
 My illness prevented nc from taking
 part in the proposed ambush, and every thing Was propitious. She could come to me without suspicion or peril and we could remain together many hours. Ac- cOrdinSly she left the camp at the lake
 before 10 o'clock and reached my rooms at II. She was still with me when the