Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-01-05
CHAPTER XIII.

| Inc anu jury hhu ouJNNiASN
from the Trenham Arms, in Kumley, t
| Hohve. to go through the ceremony they
designated viewing the body" which
consisted of their standing for two min
utes round the bed where the dead mar
Law. and gazing with lugubrious indiffer
| ence at the we'll cut. rigid features of the
ex-steward who had labored so hard tc
| be master here, where his rule could bt
known no longer. They had returned
again, with an effort at sadness, to the
| Trenham Arms, and had taken their seats
| at the long, polished table round which
so may of them sat night after night in
| iovial conviviality. Grave enough now
| though: grave almost as the physician
who gives the first evidence and shows
| with a CAIN consciousness how on his re
turn from Winterfeld on the evening Of
| the 2Sth he met the horse Mr.. Trenham
had been riding galloping toward home
| the reins hanging loose and the saddle
| empty how a few minutes afterward he
| had seen deceased lying in the drive just
as he lay when the other physicians
came up and how, some fifty PAGES near
err the Lodge, he had found Mr.. Trenham
thrown and unconscious; the unconscious
ness evidently caused by his temple hav-
ing been struck in the fall.
Lorraine Galveston sat listening while
this evidence was corroborated by the
elder physicians.
Then your opinion Is that Mr.. Tren-
hams horse threw him and on its home
ward way. unchecked, rode over deceased
and trampled him to deathY
That was, under the circumstances, the
only opinion the physicians could form.
Deceased had been crushed upon his chest
by horses tread. Mr.. Trenham had
been violently thrown upon the temple.
No blood had been split, and so the case
was simple and incontrovertible.
Miss Gaveston was in attendance"
the coroner believed, land had been pres
emit at the finding of the bodies. Would
Miss Gaveston step forward?"
THE evidence you give shall be the
t. y, the whole truth, and nothing but
the truth, SO help you God"
Athol was standing close beside her
while she was sworn and saw how her
white lips shivered and were not allowed
10 touch the Book she held before her
mouth.
How were the bodies lying when you
reached them?''
"They lay exactly as DIR. Meredith de-
scribed them-that of Mr.. Newley at least
fifty PAGES nearer TO Winter6eld than that
of Mr. Trenham."
And you met the horse-whereT
81 saw the horse close to the Winter
field gate of the Loop: the-the bodies
lay on the Hohve side"
No one noticed the slight change Of
form in the girls answer, but every one
noticed the agony in her low voice, and a
sign of pity, half admiration and half
respect, stirred the whole room.
The coroner's voice broke in upon this
sentence.
What horse was 1t you metz"
"The young thoroughbred called Yes
iris, which Mr.. Trenham was fond of
riding. but which we none of us liked TO
see him ride-a dangerous horse we all
thought It. Miss Shefford was most anx-
ious that evening and expressed to Or.
We're and myself her fears for Mr.. Tren-
ham. especially as the horse had been
for some weeks doing nothing"
The grooms then, dc not exercise her
in his absence"
Il believe not, except one servant. who
was with his master in London during
that time"
THE man who is to give his evidence.
you meang"
Yes
And 1t was you. Miss Gaveston. was
it not. who bore the tidfngs to Winter
fieldg'
YES. il was l."
You left DIR. We're striving to restore
consciousness to Mr.. Trenhamr
Yes"
Can you remember where this whip
lay when you reached the spot?"
II saw that whip beside Mr.. Tren-
hams hand, just where he lay"
And this hat; l I'm sorry to con-
tinue such an examination, Miss Caves
ton, but it is painfully necessary"
That hat is Mr.. Newley's. l remem-
Der seeing it; it lay on the grass, 1 think,
some few yards from his head"
did you not always consider Mr.. Tren-
ham ye-y skillful horseman?"
Yes"
YES"
The simple word was freighted with
heavy fear.
Then it must have surprised you
greatly to meet his horse riderlessT'
Old Or. Meredith hurriedly whispered
to the coroner, and. with a murmured
apology. this question was withdrawn
viii you gofr whispered Athol TO her,
eagerly, when she was released
NO. viii stay. IL suppose ! had
better stay she answered back, in a
tone of WEAKNESS that was yet shaken
by q restless excitement.
So she took her seat again and listened
once more, with every eager power she
possessed. while Brent was sworn and
questioned.
She knew she had no fear for any
thing she might relate. No. not even II
he knew
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