The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-10-26


 would shave been prompt to say so if such had been the case. Calden. who really impressed him as wanting to 1 convey the appearance of frankness.
 whatever might be the actual state of his mind, took no step to repair his wife's omission. but went on with his own story:
 1 1T stood being shut up in those close. rooms pretty well. but toward evening I had to give in, and at last slipped out with Bull and got into the woods The only person I met was working man. going toward the village When was this?'' interposed Grim. bleshaw. a trifle anxiously. "As was coming back to the house l from my walk. I should say some where between 6:3O and o'clock. As near as could make out in the dark he was a French Canadian. though I am not as we'll acauainted with their distinctive marks as you would be. However. Bull gave warning in time l for me to slip into cover, and the man went on. without paying any attention | to me, that I could see.'' You saw no one else going toward or coming from the far1n?" asked the doctor again. tt | NO. At one time I thought I heard some one moving in a side path but I simply made sure that if there was | any one he could not see me. and as l long as was out of sight that was all IT cared for. You must remember this tragedy had not then occurred. and there was nothing to arouse my suspicious in regard to any one whom might have met. I simply wanted to keep out of sight,
 When was this other noise?" asked Grimbleshaw, seemingly paying as lit tie attention as ,politeness would ad- init to Calden's personal explanation.
 Lust a few moments before I met the workingman nave spoken of Of course. it might have been the noise of some one in the bushes or behind a tree. but I remember that at the time I thought it was some one nov ing along another path" Toward or from the farm?' T really couldn't tell. It is all too indefinite for certainty Then. if you were testifying on oath, you couldn't say positively that there was any one about excepting this one man. whom you thought a French Canadian?''
 1T certainly could not said Calden. seemingly a little irritated at such in sistence on what he clearly regarded as an utterly unimportant matter. ''When I got back to the house it was so dark that I had no fear of being seen'
 Was there any light about?'' Grim bIeshaw asked. recalling the darkness of the house when he approached it some two hours later.
 ''There was dim light in the kitch- en. and another in the room where the accident happened" Calden answered.
 "Did you come round by the front of the house?" Grimbleshaw asked finding himself at a loss to locate the man at point where he could see these lights if he was coming from the woods, which were to the rear of the farm and nearer the door by which Calder would naturally regain his part of the house.
 ''I was very unwilling to go in. the rooms had grown so oppressive to me. and it was so dark that I had no fear in strolling about but when I got where I could see the lights I made up my mind I had better not venture farther and so went in.'
 Wasn't it raining?''
 E'It was just beginning. Afterward the storm came up very rapidly and soon turned to sleet."
 Mrs Calden grew quite uneasy at this questioning and seemed disposed to resent it. but Calden himself went on with the story. as if under impulse to make an end of it.
 To be Continued.)