The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-07-01
THE FILIGREE BALL
Being Full and True Account Of the Solution Of
the Mystery Concerning the Jeffrey Moore Affair.
BY ANNA KATHERINE GREEN.
Author Of The Leavenworh Case The Bb Co

Miss Tuttle,' was the grave, almost
sad reply, did you not know that in some
earth, dropped from flower-pot over
turned at the time when hundred
guests flew in terror from this
house, there Is to be seen the
mark OF a footstep. footstep
which you are at liberty to measure with
your own"
"Ah!" she murmured, her hands going
UP to her face.
But in another moment she had dropped
them and looked directly at the coroner.
II walked there-I never said that did
not walk there-when went later to see
my sister and In sight Of a number of de-
| tectives passed straight thru the nails
and into the library
And that this footstep,' inexorably i
| proceeded the coroner us not In line
| with the main thorofare extending from
the front to the back Of the house, but
turned inwards toward the wall as II she
| who made 1t had stopped to lean her head !
against the partition?'
| Miss Tuttles head dropped. Probably I
| she realized at this moment If not be- I
fore, that the coroner and jury had ample |
| excuse for mistrusting one who had been
SO Enthusiastically caught in a prevarica- |
| ton; possibly her regret carried her far |
enough to wish she had not disdained all
legal advice from those who had so
| earnestly offered 1t. But tho she showed
! alike her shame and her disheartment,
she did not give up the struggle.
IF I went into the house." she said,
| sit was not to enter that room. had too
great a dread OF it. If rested my head
against the wall 1t was In terror Of that
shot. It came SO suddenly and was so
frightful, so much more frightful than
anything you can conceive"
Then you did enter the house?'
81 did,
"And 1t was while you were inside, in
! stead Of outside, that you heard the
: shot?" y,
II must admit that, too. was at the
library door,"
You acknowledge that?"
II do
But you did not enter the library
mo, not then; not till I was taken
back by the officer who told me Of my
sisters DEATH"
I'VE are glad to hear this precise state
ment from you. It encourages me to ask
again the nature Of the freak which took
you into this house. You say that it was
!. not from any dread on your sisters ac-
: count? What, then, was it? No evas1ve
= answer will satisfy US, Miss Tuttle."
She realized this as no one else could
!, Mr.. Jeffrey's reason for his visit there
. could not be her reason, yet what other
], had she to give? Apparently none.
! II cannot answer she said.
And the deep sigh which swept thru the
: room was but an echo of the despair with
!? which she saw herself brought to this
- point.
= I'VE will not oblige you to- said the
v coroner with apparent consideration. But
J. to those who knew the law against for
n cling witness to incrimfnate himself,
It this was far from an encouraging conces-
T sion.
k However he now went on, with sud-
denly assumed severity, you may answer
le this: Was the house dark or light when
you entered it? And how did you get mr.
If The house was dark, and got in thru
the front door, which found ajar."
le You are more courageous than most
{ women I fear there are few Of your
Il sex who could be induced to enter 1t In
broad daylight and under every suitable
"a protection"
AT She raised her figure proudly.
4 Miss futile, you have heard Chloe say
~ that you were in the kitchen of Mr.. JEFF
II frey's house when the grocer boy delivered
1T the candles which had been left by your
IN brother-in-law on the counter of the store
le where he bought them. Is this true
t. Eyes, sir; it is true"
In did you see those candles?"
r.. mo, sir"
st You did not see them?''
n mo, SIR"
er yet you went over to the table?"
r Yes, sir; but did not NEEDLE with tn
u package. I had really no business wit
I'D them"
The coroner, surveying her sadly, wen
k quickly on as If anxious to terminate thi
painful examination.
re "You have not told us what you di
nd when you heard that pistol shot
lis II ran away as soon as I could move
ce. I ran madly from the house"
or 'Where?"
1T Home"
"But 1t was half-past ten when you &C
ter home"
UP WAS it?"
he 1T was half-past ten when the ma
on came to tell you of your sisters DEATH
10 1T may have BEEN.
your sister is supposed to have die
>id in few minutes. Where were you
q, the Interim"
lbs "God knows. I do not
A wild look was creeping into her fac.
* and her figure was swaying. But 81
icy soon steadied it. / have never seen
IL more admirable presence maintained
er the face of dreadful humiliation.
on (To be continued to-morrow)
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