Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1902-08-07

clearing her own character.
Il didn't want to go. Miss Theodore
made me 60" said she.
"Well, you went, at any rate. and
you saw him, and spoke to him"
"No; didn't speak to him."
"Well, you saw him. didn't you?'
mo; l wouldn't look at him.
heard him; that was all"
you heard him tell Miss Bostal that
| he was going to Stroan!
Here frightened look passed sud
denly across the girls face, causing
| the iurymen, one and ALL to look at
her more attcntively than before.
yes"
The answer was a whisper
"And, of course, you didn't notice
| whether he seemed in his usual health
or not?"
81 didn't notice.
"Of course not. Then you went back
TO Colonel Bo>tals house with Miss
| BostalW
YES"
"Did YOU notice the time at all? Can
you tell us what time it was when you
coached the house?
mo-
"You can't give any idea?
| NO"
mot even within an hour?'
"No.'
"And when you got to the house
what did you do?'
Il cried"
"Where? In the kitchcn?
"Yes. think 50. l hardly remem'
ber."
Miss Bostal left you to so upstairs
and mend her dress. Do you remem'
Der thatT'
mo. oh, yes. think / do
"Now don't want to worry you, but
| want you to think before you answer
me. When Miss Bostal loft sou TO so
upstairs, what did you do!'
"I-I-I went into the Kitchen
"And you cried therc?
YES"
"And can you tell us about how long
you sat there crying?
NO"
presently you made the tea, didn't
you:'
A pause.
The coroner went on
"Try to recollect 1t only happened
last night. you know. Miss Bostai
says you brought in the tea brought
it into the diningroom. Don't you
remember doing that:
, ooh, oh, yes!'
"And did you then look at the clock?
Do you remember"
mo, | don't remember
"You found Miss Bostal In the din
;ng-room. What was she doing"
"She was lighting the fire.
"Yes. And you-had you been in the
kitchen all the time after she left you
until you took the tea into the dining
room"
"Ycs."
"You had not been outside the house
for a moment"
This question Nell answered prompt
ly:
"Oh, no"
"You are sure OF that!
"Quite sure"
Have you, gentlemen, any ques-
tions to ask this witness! went on the
coroner, turning to the jury
A stout man with gray whiskers
leaned forward in his seat.
II should like to ask Miss Clarls,'
he said, "whether the deceased had
not used certain threats towards her?
He is known to have said that he had
used threats"
The coroner looked as IL he was un-
certain whether he should allow this
question, but Nell answered by a.
movement of her head in assent.
He did use threats to rour per-
sisted the juryman,
Eyes, but"
"He threatened to tell the police
who it was that committed the rob-
berries at your uncle's house?'
Nell turned very white, and threw at
the persistent juryman frightened
glance.
"Yes. He said that he knew
"And he threatened to give informa-
tlon?"
81 don't think" interrupted the coro'
ner that you ought to put it like that.
Threaten is hardly the word. He said
he would give information, did he
not?'
"Yes," said Nell, almost inaudibly.
"Are you engaged to Mr.. King?
asked he.
"Really, gentlemen, we must keep to
the point" protested the coroner But
Nell answered this question in loud
er voice.
81 am not engaged to him." she said,
firmly.
THAT will do, think said the cor
oner, who saw that there was strong
tendency on the part of the jury to sat
lsfy their curiosity on points quite
outside the subject Of inquiry
And Nell was allowed to retire from
her prominent position. Miss Bostal
was waiting for her, and with gentle
hand she dragged the girl into seat
beside her, where little could be seen
of her now flushed and frightened
face.
"There is now only one more wit
ness" went on the coroner addressing
the Jury. 1t ia thh second medical