The Weiser semi-weekly signal. (Weiser, Washington Co., Idaho) 1904-1911, 1904-08-20

"Home."
"But it was half past 10 when you
got home"
"Was itY'
ut was half past 10 when. the man
came to tell you of your sisters death"
at may have BEEN"
''Your sister is supposed TO have died
In few minutes. Where were you in
the interim?'
"God knows. do not"
A wild look was creeping into her
face and her figure was swaying, but
she soon steadied it. / have never
seen more admirable presence MAIN
tanned in the face of dreadful humil-
iation.
Perhaps l can help you" rejoined
the coroner not unkindly 'Were you
not in the Congressional library look
ing up at the lunettes and gorgeously
painted walls?"
Up her eyes opened wide in won
dering doubt "If l was 1 did not
know 1t. / have no remembrance OF
it."
"Your condition OF mind and that of
Mr.. Jeffrey seem to have been strange
ly alike" remarked the coroner.
: "No. nor she protested.
Arguing like source"
mo. no." she cried again, this time
with positive agony. Then, with an
effort which awakened respect for
her powers of mind, If for nothing
u else, she desperately added: 81 cannot
ray what was in his heart that night.
81 but know what was in mine-dread
u Of that old house, to which had been
,. drawn in spite of myself, possibly by
"a the force of the tragedy going on In
e. side it, eliminating in a delirium of
Z terror which sent me flying in an OPP
D posite direction from, my home and
into places l had been accustomed to
O. visit when my heart was light and I'M
troubled"
ID "Another question, Miss futile.
at When you heard a pistol shot sound
ing from the depths Of that dark H.
I prary, what did you think 1t meant?'
or Something dreadful; something su-
m. perstitious. 1t was night. you remem-
~ ber and at night ore has such horri-
-, BILE thoughts"
"
nal clared that the hearth was no load
nn stone You forgot its horrors and your
go superstition upon returning to your
as own house"
on 1T might be-" she murmured. but
il SO, they soon returned. hid reason
for my horror, II not for my supersd
IA ton, as the event showed"
I'D The coroner did not attempt to con
trovert this. He was about to launch
ror final inquiry.
nd Miss Tuttle,. upon the return O.
ht- yourself and Mr.. Jeffrey to your hom'
- after your final visit to the Moor
house, did you have any interview
that was without witnessesf"
ido NO"
tho "Did you exchange any wordsT
~ think we did exchange som
- words: it would be only natural"
"Are YOU willing to state who
words?"
She looked dazed and appeared
v ~ search her memory.
,en IL don't think cam" she objected.
"Rut something was said by you an
some answer was made by himT
cise II believe So"
me Cannot you say definitely
oak 1--WE did speak"
You "In English?
! on mo, IN FRENCH 49,. uro,,,
hen. cannon you 'ransa'e
atis- for usT'
pardon me, sir; 1t was so long a.
my memory fails me-"
+ha as IL any better for the second a.
longer interview between you the ne
with dayY'
NAV "No-sir.'
/, or 'You cannot give us any phrase
how word that was uttered therer
mo"
1T in rs th,s your hnai iep'S w
ound ject?"
at is"
,,,os+ simultaneously with her WITHDRAW
your the CLEAN of sensibility left the RAJ
or q of the Jury. and the dark and brood
s,,it- look which had marked their coun
nances from the beginning return
and returned to stay.
chloe The celebrity with which that jury
an os rived at its verdict was shock to
rocer all. 1t had been quiet body, oner
nod Int little assistance to the coroner
n the his questioning, but when 1t fell
ought these men 10 act 'ne p.es -,s,.,no
which they did so was astonishing
a half hour they returned from
room into which they had adjourn
and the foreman gave warning that
was prepared to render verdict.
Mr.. Jeffrey and Miss Tuttie
~ clinched their hands; then Miss Iu
with pulled down ner ven ,,.o,,
siness we nnd' sniu 'ne ' Sesr-au ,vhc
sadly the night OF May IL was diseov'
ter,ni. lying dead on the floor OF her own
occupied house in Waverley ave
came to her death by means OF bu