Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1897-10-03

But she can't be very lar away
said Jen, hopefully Il saw her in
Deanminster. and thought she had
| gone there with a message from you. /"
mo. nc" cried Mrs. Dallas, wiring
ing her hands. "She will catch the
train there and go to London. Oh,
why didn't you stop herr"
Il wish I had known" said Jen,
rather dismayed to find his fine case
against Etwald breaking down, "hut
even if we had forced her into court
she would not have given evidence
against the holder of the Voodoo
Stone"
Dat SOL" said horse voice at the
door.
The three people turned, and saw
Dido, with an expression Of triumph
on her dark face, enter the room.
"Dido!" cried Isabella. "You did
not run away?"
mo. missy, 1 tell de truth against
| dat man."
But the Voodoo Stone" said Jen,
| wondering what she meant
Dido opened her clinched fist. The
Voodoo Stone lay in the palm Of her
| hand.
CHATTER XXII-FOR THE DE-
FENCE.
How she became possessed of the
Voodoo Stone, Dido refused to say.
Jen had learned from Inspector Arkel
that Etwald wore the tailisman on
his watch chain, and he wondered in
what fashion Dido had contrived to pen
citrate into prison and to obtain it from
the Doctor. The whole result of the
trial depended on the transfer of the
stone. If Etwald kept it Dido would
not dare to give evidence against him,
and so, in the absence of discriminating
details, he would go free. AS it was,
the stone was now in the possession of
DIDO, and for some reason, which ,Jen
was unable to fathom, she was quite
contented to betray her share in me
plot. By changing hands the Voodoo
Stone had transformed Dido into a.
traitress.
However, as the advantage derived
from the transfer was all on the side
OF the prosecution, Jen did not think
1t wise to inquire too closely into the
means which Dido had employed to
regain the talisman. He saw nothing
OF David, who pointedly kept out of
his way. He made no inquiries Of
Dido. and simply informed the Inspec-
tor that the negress was reacy to ex
plain Etwald's secrets, without telling
him why she was willing to do So.
Her Majesty's Judges on Circuit
came to Deanminster, the court was
formally opened, and after some trivial
cases had been disposed of, the trial
of Regina VS.. Etwald was announced.
The hall in which the court sat was
crowded with people from far and
near. There were even reporters from
London, sent down by the great dailies,
for the case had obtained more than
a local celebrity. Inspector Arkel,
with his seven witnesses on behalf of
the Crown, was at the table before the
Judges, and, with Major Jen, had held
several conversations with the Public
Prosecutor. David, calm and compos-
ed, but paler than a corpse, was in his
place glancing over his brief, and ex-
changing curt sentences with Etwalds
solicitor. Lastly Etwald himself, the
terrible criminal, who, in the eyes of
the public, was hardened and blood
thirsty monster, stepped into the dock.
Suave and smiling, he pleaded not
guilty to the indictment, and the trial
commenced.
The Public Prosecutor stated the
case in all it's fulness. The prisoner,
said he was medical man practising
in Deanminster. He had seen Miss
Isabella Dallas, and had fallen in love
with the lady, and also-which was
more mportant-with the fortune of
the lady. Evidently he had made up
his mind that no obstacle should stand
in the way of his marriage with Miss
Dallas. But it so happened that there
was one obstacle; the young lady was
in love with Mr. Maurice Alymer,
young gentleman Of position who held
Her love was returned, and the young
couple were engaged.
Interruption by the prisoners coun-
sci: But without the consent of the
mother"
The Public Prosecutor thought that
the interruption Of his learned friend
was out of place; as the refusal of Mrs.
Dallas" mother, gentlemen of the
jury, to the young lady engaged to the
deceased gentleman, Mr.. Maurice Ally
mer'-had nothing to do with the ac-
tual facts of the case. The prisoner,
seeing that while Mr.. Alymer lived, he
could never marry Miss Dallas, deter
mined to rid himself of a rival. The
prisoner had been in Barbados. and
while there he had learned many things
concerning African witchcraft, and had
become possessor of the Voodoo Stone.
talisman which the black race held
in peculiar reverence. On his return
to England, the prisoner had become
acquainted with Mrs. Dallas, with the
daughter whom he designed to marry,
and with a negress called Dido. the
servant of the aforesaid Mrs. Dallas.
BY means of the Voodoo Stone. the
prisoner made an absolute slave of the
negress, and could command her SER
vices at any time, even to the extent of
crime
The counsel for the defense objected
to the use of the word crime Nothing.
he submitted, had yet been proved.
Counsel for the prosecution accented
the correction of his learned friend.
and withdrew the obnoxious word
crime-if not altogether, at all events
for the time being. He would resume
his explanation of the case. Major
Jen, the adopted father of the deceased,
possessed barbaric curiosity called nv