News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1909-01-06

knowledge was burning his tongue
The jury were leaning forward In thelr
seats.
Have you ever seen the prisoner be
fore?" asked Fielder.
Eyes"
"WhenY
when he was a minister of the Cos
pei"
Fielder stared. The Judge frowned
The jury looked at one another. and a
laugh ran round the hushed room
The merriment kindled the evangel-
fists distempered passion. Sudden an
ger famed in him. He leaned forward
and shook his hand vehemently at the
table where Harry sat, his face as col
Orless as the flower he wore.
"That mans name," he blazed, "is
not Hugh Stires. 1t Is cloak he has
chosen to cover his shame. He is the
Rev. Henry Sanderson of Aniston."
Harry's pulses had leaped with ex
element when the street preachers
first exclamation startled the court.
room; now they were beating us though
they must burst. Through the stir
about him he heard the crisp voice OF
the district attorney:
81 ask your honor's permission before
this extraordinary witness is examined
further he said causticaly. ito read
an item printed here which has a bear
ing upon the testimony" He held in
his hand newspaper which earlier in
the afternoon. with cynical disregard
Of Felder's tactics. he had been casual
ly perusing.
Read it, SIR
Holding the newspaper to a candle
the lawyer read in an even voice. pref
acing his reading with the journals
name and date:
This city, which was aroused in the
night by the burning of st. James chapel,
will be greatly shocked to learn that its
rector, the Rev. Henry Sanderson, who
has been for some months on a prolonged
vacation, was in the building at the time
and now lies at the city hospital. suffer-
ing from injuries from which it is ru-
mored there is grave doubt of his re-
covery.
In the litter that rippled the court
room Harry felt his heart bound and
swell. Under the succinct statement
he clearly discerned the fact. He saw
the pitfall into which Hugh had fallen
the trap into which he himself had
sent him on that fatal errand with the
ruby ring on his finger. Grave doubt
of his recovery" A surge of relief
swept over him to his finger tips. He
would be free to go back-to be him.
self again, to be Jessca's-if Hugh
his ears:
The facts have not as yet been ascer-
tanned, but it seems clear that the popu-
lar young minister returned to town un
eXpectedly last night and was asleep in
his study when the fire started His
presence in the building was unguessed |
until too late, and it was by little short |
of a miracle that he was brought out
alive.
AS we go to press we learn that Mr.. |
Sanderson's condition is much mere hope |
full than was at first reported.
Harry's heart contracted as if d |
giant hand had clutched it. His ella |
tion fell like rotten tree girdled at |
the roots. If Hugh did not die He
chilled as though in a spray of liquid |
air. Hughs escape-the chance his |
COINCIDENCE had given him-was cut of.
The judge reached for the newspaper
the lawyer held, ran his eye over it
and brought his gavel down with an
angry snort.
Take him away" he said. His ties.
timony is ordered stricken from the
Fielder We can't make you response.
BILE for lunatics. The court stands ad-
journed.'
Fielder had been among the last to
leave the courtroom. He was dis.
comfited and angry. At the door OF
the courthouse DR.. Brent slipped an
arm through his.
TOO bad. Tom" he said sympathiz
ingly. Il don't think you quite de.
served it,
Fielder paced moment without
speaking. II need evidence" he said
then: anything that may help.
made a mistake. You heard all the
testimony
The other nodded.
What did you think of it"
What could any one think? ] give
all credit to your motive, Tom, but it's
a pity you're mixed up in it."
why"
because, If there's anything in hu.
man evidence, he's thoroughly worth
less reprobate. He lay for Moreau |
and murdered him in cold blood, and
be ought to swing"
1.-THE casual view" said the lawyer
yloomily. Just what | should have
said myself-if this had happened
month ago"
His friend looked at him with an
amused expression. 81 begin to think
ne must be remarkable man! he
said. rs 1t possible he has really con
vinced you that he isn't guilty.?
Fielder turned upon the doctor
YES" he returned bluntly
He has. Whatever | may have be-
iavad uhan I took this case | haV, l