Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-01-30
CHAPTER XXI.-(Continued.)

out of the house, before Mr.. Keene left
Did anything occur to make him leave
the room?"
'Iie seemed to have lost something. He
felt repeatedly in his pockets, and looked
about the floor"
Did he continue his search after leav-
ing tae room?"
Yes; he had candle, and looked all
mp the stairs and in the hail.
do yoa know what it was he lostF
"A piece of paper. He said that there
was an important memorandum on it. and
he offered the maid half sovereign If she
found it."
l glanced at Mr.. Yeames. 50 did Sir
Roland, whom l touched with my toe I'M
der the table. The young man was look
ing at the white paper before him. and
there was scarcely more color in his face.
He looked up in quick dread at the next
question.
WAS that paper found?"
NO"
Mr.. Yeames drew a long breath Of re-
lief.
II shall now ask you, Mr.. Lynn
Yeames, to give me your attention. You
do not dispute the order of events as
stated by Miss Dalrymple?"
NO"
when you left Flexmore House, at
half-past eleven you rode over to Mr..
KeeneW
Yes"
You had seen him leave the house, and
were acutely anxious to know what his
business there was"
Lynn hesitated a moment, but at
nudge from Bax replied, Yes"
You had been given to understand that
the bulk of Mr.. Flexmore's property
would be left in trust to you?"
Yes" after another nudge.
1.-THE presence of Mr.. Keene led you to
think that Mr.. Flexmore might have al
tered his disposition
Nudge as before, and Yes"
ION arriving at Mr.. Keene's you were
shown into the Office, and waited there
some time alone? You saw a sheet of
foolscap lying on the tableT'
Yeames replied that he had seen moth
ing of the kind whatever.
You are sure of thati' asked Sir Ro-
land.
Il will take my oath l saw nothing of
the kind"
when you left FIexmore House the
second time. about half-past one, where
did you go?"
ITO fetch DR.. Awdrey."
''Dr. Audrey was not at home, l be
lieve?"
HE was not. | waited for him half
an hour, or thereabouts.'
Where did you waltz"
''In his private sitting room
'You know that the consulting room
adjoins the sitting room?"
Yes"
go 1 you go there for any purpose"
NO.
After waiting quietly in the sitting
roxn half an hour, you returned to Flex-
more House"
Yes; l was anxious about Mr.. Flex-
more's condition"
with respect to the piece of paper
you mislaid; have you any objection to
stating what it WASP"
None; it was a leaf from my notebook,
containing memoranda respecting horses
/ had backed for spring meeting"
Sir Roland asked if we had any ques-
tons to ask and, on receiving a reply in
the negative, he proceeded to question
Mrs. Bates.
You were in the service of DIR. Aw-
drey, l believe, at the time of Mr.. Flex-
mores death?"
Il were, sir"
1.-The previous night Dr. Audrey was
absent from homer
HE were, sir. He came in about half
past ten or eleven the next morning,
will not swear exact and he asks for
breakfast
After that he went out?"
He did: about twelve or half-past, l
will not swear"
You had tidied up his room in the
morning as usual?"
Il had; about seven or half-past."
"Now in tidying up his room, had you
occasion to go into the consulting room?"
may be disbelieved."
when Mr.. Yeames called, you showed
him into the sitting roomT
II did him being friend, as was led
TO believe, of DR.. Hawdrey's."
During the half-hour he was there did
you hear any particular soundY'
mo, sir, l did not; being at my doc
ties hupstairs.'
Nothing like the crash of falling
bottle?"
''Nothink of the kind"
''T'he door communicating with the con-
sulting room was open?'
No; it WERE closed, though the key
turned"
but the key was in?'
ut we're"
There was nothing, In fact. TO prevent
Mr. Yeames strolling in there from curl
osity--to while away the time that he
was waiting for DR.. Awdrey|
"Noshink; but l believe Mr.. Yeames
were too much the gentleman to go a-pry-
ing and a-peering.'
She had evidently a gratuity in view,
that Mrs. Bates.
when did you first hear of bottle
being broken?"
when DR.. Awdrey came in; about
four o'clock or half-past. He asked me
if l had done it, and l said l had not !;
and should feel obliged if he would find
some one else, as l did not like such
things to be laid to me-"
Did he make any other remark about
the consulting room; was anything miss
ing from there?"
lSS hS cahu phSSSAiplAOh "dS SOue
did he describe the prescription"
Yes; he said 1t were written on the
bottle papers
What do you mean by the bottle pa
pers2"
"A pile of square papers, white, that
stood on the little side counter"
Can you show me what the papers
were like?"
EXACTLY like that sheet on the table, y
pointing TO a sheet of thin white paper
which l had purposely laid on the table
near where she was to sit. ''Dr. Haw-
drey tried to pass it off afterwards" Mrs.
Bates volunteered; "he said it must have
been the shaking of carts passing or the
cat, and offered TO rise my celery if L
would stay. But l refused, seem it were
not the first time he had laid temptation
in my way-giving me half a crown to