The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1908-05-02

stood on the little side counter"
"Can you show me what the papers
| were like?"
| Exactly like that sheet on the table. "
| 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 refused, SEEM it were
not the fl vt time he had laid temptation
in my way-giving me half a crown to
buy fourpenny arrand. and not askin'
me for the change till two days after
wards-which l kept it back to prove
him."
| THAT is enough. DR.. Awdrey, l shall
confine my questions to events connected
with the latter part of the evidence. Tell
me, if you please, what you know about
the broken bottle of arsenic"
| ut was a blue bottle, labeled in large
letters arsenic, poison On going into
the consulting room l found it in frag-
ments on the floor, with the powder wide
ly scattered"
How did you account for it's being
there?"
| Il believed that Mrs. Bates had taken
it down from the shelf on which it stood.
and that it had slipped from her fingers in
putting it back"
"You attributed the accident to acct
dental cause?'
mot entirely. believed that some one
had been in the room.'
"Why?"
Because of the missing prescription"
Tell me about this prescription"
1T was prescription jotted down with
lead pencil on the pile of paper re-
| ferred to, that l intended to make up
later on"
ut is your habit to make notes on this
pile of paper?"
ut isl
Have you ever been able to trace that
missing prescription?'
No; have never discovered any trace
of it.
Here the note under Sir Roland's hand
| ran, Look to me-" Sir Roland looked
at me, and, taking folded sheet of brown
paper from under my notes, l opened it
| and handing a sheet of the bottle paper to
DR.. Audrey, l said:
us that the prescription. DR.. Audrey ?"
l never saw a man more astonished in
my life.
Good gracious, yes!' he exclaimed.
"Where did you find it?'
"You shall hear presently" said l, fix
ing my eyes on Lynn Yeames.
h.
seeing my eyes So fixed; and, though he
continued to meet our gaze, his blanched
cheek told the terror he felt. l carefully
handed the sheet of paper to Sir Roland
why, what does this mean?" he asked
looking from one to the other; then,
catching a significant glance from me, he
took up his notes again quietly. Mr..
Keene," he said, "tell me what took place
on the occasion of Mr.. Yeames' visit on
the day of Mr.. Flexmore's DEATH"
II was taking lunch when he called"
said l, lin the next room, before sitting
down to make out the will in accordance
with Mr.. Flexmore's wishes. He had
been induced to make the alteration
through DR.. Audrey"
"Dr. Audrey wished the will leaving
property to him to be revoked ~ exclaim-
ed Sir Roland.
He did," said I and I explained Aw-
drey's reasons, and all about it fully.
Then 1 continued: I'm the new will the
name of Lynn Yeames was to be substi-
tuted for DR.. Awdrey's. l had the draft
| of the first will, and intending to copy
it after lunch, had imprudently left it
! on the table in this room. Mr.. Yeames
! came in here; was in the next room.
You see the blind to the half-glazed door.
| 1t is opaque from this point of view; it is
transparent from the other side. Stand
| ing by the door before entering, l saw
Lynn Yeames reading the draft of Mr..
Flexmore's first will. He was at once
led to conclude that this was the second
will commanded by Flexmore. With the
belief that l was making out will which
would beggar him he went away and you
can see that he had the strongest induce
| ment to delay me and prevent Mr.. Flex-
more signing a second will"
"Sir Roland Firkin," gasped Mr.. Bax,
II protest most"
Silence, If you please. said Sir Ro-
land; II rule that Mr.. Keene is perfectly
in order. Go on, sir"
after seeing my old friend lying in his
bedroom dead, l went downstairs with
Lynn Yeames, as you have heard. There,
in a moment of Impotence, he ficked his
handkerchief from his pocket, and in do
ing so shot out a pellet of paper. I put
| my foot on that pellet of paper, and when
Yeames left the room to look for it put
it in my pocket"
| "Quite right, too, Mr.. Keene; 90 on"
said Sir Roland in great excitement.
| II put it away in a drawer where I
keep things which may at some time be
of service, and forgot all about it until
my suspicion was directed to Yeames by
the discovery that the very day he lost it
he bolted out Of England and did not re-
turn until Mr.. Flexmore was. buried and
all fear Of the poison being found out and
traced to him was removed. Then l re-
called to mind the paper pellet-the sheet
of paper you have now under your hand,
Sir Roland"
I'VE win not stay here to be insulted, !"
cried Mrs. Yeames, rising; ut il scandal
Gus. But We will obtain redress"
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