Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-01-20
boih gentlemen. well keep our agreement

{ buta gentlemen. we'll keep our agreement
to the end
Even If. By so doing, you should lose
credence. and be considered guilty OF
contempt of conrtg'
! Even then. Though sufficient Tor the
day is the evil thereof
Il am sorry to hear that But, OF
course, you will make no difficulty about
submitting your hands to the examina-
ton of our police surgeon for any scar
Or other peculiarly which nay be found
there?"
They had taken him unawares ait last
AT least. thought Ssvernaka. with
eyes that burnt under the veil Of their
lowered lids. He had thought himself
very clever IN preparing his pupil for
all possible and impossible emergencies
but-as most OF the cleverest nlurderers
forget one clue To their guiEt--this test
had slipped his mind. What would May
nard do or say?
The badgered witness was smiling
though a strong colour had risen under
the bronze which the suns caresses had
given his handsome fact Perhaps after
all. he was rot al the eud OF MS tether
even yet.
1t seemed 20 be one knock down blow
after another. no sooner dill he get up
from Under one than lie had 10 take the
next
He had no second waiting the end of
the round, with cooling water in a sponge,
but he had the stimulant of Anne
O'Neiils glorious eyes, and though he
could not deserve the trust tina. they re-
vealcd. he could DO his desperate best to
justify it.
He shall have my hand, with all my
heart" Maynard said, with no abate-
ment of his levity. but he'll find no
scar there for the best of reasons. There
is none and never was. L happened to
catch my cousin, Mr.. Palgraves evidence
as to the trophy OF a football game, 9TH
erwise 1 should never have heard of it
before My cousin doubtless saw the
broken joint on the hand of the corpse,
and persuaded himself. in his natural ag-
itation, that | had one to match it,
I'm sure nobody else ever saw it but
he, not even my valet, who is now la
menting my death and wearing my old
clothes on board my deserted house boat
Perhaps his evidence would be as val
liable in this instance as Mr.. Palgrave's."
We will waive the broken finger" re-
marked the coroner with dignity And
then wondered why it was that the Duke
laughed
Once more, however, 1 must beg to
trouble you he went on "Oblige me
by writing your full name on this piece
of paper"
Maynard's hand was not steady as he
took the pen which was offered him, and
dipped it in the ink One of the first les
sons which he had had from Savernake
in what he called the art of being a
Duke had been in initiating the dead
mans penmanship. 1t had gone against
the grain, but he had accepted the ne
cessity, with other distasteful ones and
had on several occasions achieved a sig
nal success
But now he was afraid of himself In
the first place, the ordeal he had gone
through had not been precisely soothing
to his nerves, and in the second place,
his effort to make the task as easy as II
had seemed when practising on ship
board
drop or two of ink spattered on the
paper Gritting his teeth together. he
dashed into battle, finging down the ar
ray of names, and finishing with the
scrawn underneath the usual shorter sig
nature of Leicester" that he who had
gone had affected
Then, without looking at the page, he
pushed the paper from him. He had
done his best. The thing must stand on
its merits.
CTo be continued