Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1908-02-14

1es' he said it were written on the
bottle papers,"
What do YOU m.a, NV Tho ho..,
pers?" '''e pa
A pile of square papers, white. that
stood on the little side counter"
Gan you show me what the papers
We're like?'
Exactly like that sheet on the table"
pointing TO sheet Of thin white paper
| "hlch mad purposely laid on the table
near where she was to sit. "Dr. Haw-
Grey tried to pass it off afterwards" Mrs.
| bates volunteered; she said it must have
been the shaking of carts passing or the
cat, and offered to rise my celery if I
would stay. But refused, seein' r were
not the first time he had laid temptation
IN my way-giving me half crown to
Duy fourpenny arrand, and not askin'
me Tor the change till two days after
Waros-Whlch L kept 1t back to prove
| him.
That is enough. Dr. Audrey, I shall
conhne my questions to events connected
with the latter part of the evidence Tell
me, II you please, what you know about
the broken bottle of arsenic.'
1t was blue bottle, labeled in large
letters arsenic, poison On going into
the consulting room 1 found it in frag-
ments on the floor, with the powder wide
~ scattered"
How did you account for it's being
there?"
Il believed that Mrs. Bates had taken
1t down from the shelf on which it stood,
and that it had slipped from her fingers in
putting 1t back"
You attributed the accident to acct
dental cause?"
Not entirely. l 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 1 intended to make up
| later on"
1T is your habit to make notes on this
| pile of paper?"
"It is"
Have you ever been able to trace that
missing prescription"
mo; have never discovered any trace
of it.
Here the note under Sir Roand's hand
ran, Look to me-" Sir Roland looked
at me, and, taking a folded sheet of brown
paper from under my notes, l opened it
and handing sheet of the bottle paper to
DR.. Awdrey, l said:
lis that the prescription, Dr. Awdrey?"
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.
Every one at the table looked at him,
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"
Il was taking lunch when he called"
said l, "in 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 and l explained Aw-
drey's reasons, and all about it fully.
Then l continued: In the new will the
name of Lynn Yeames was to be substi
hod he Hrof
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; l 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 I 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,
81 protest most
"SiIence, if you please, said Sir Ro-
land; 81 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 impatience, he 1icked his
handkerchief from his pocket, and in do
ing so shot out pellet of paper put
nv 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; go on
said Sir Roland In great excitement.
"I put it away in a drawer where
keen things which may at some time De
Of service, and forgot all about it until
NV srsnicion was directed to Yeames by
the discovery that the very day he lost 1t
ba bolted out. Of England and did not re-
turn until Mr.. Flexmore was buried ana
all fear of the poison being found out and
traced to him was removed. Then | re-
a1Io5 70 mind the paper pellet-the sheet