The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1911-05-25
IC.ontinned rom ye5terday-l

.slEo. can't. What has my. Int got
to do with the guilt OF Elwood Kane
lagh9"
sNothfng, we hope. was the imper-
turR1anle answer. -'But we ind It nee
essary to establish absolutely Just
what oVercoat and what hat you wore
down street that night"
.'I,ye told you that 1 don't remen-
ber.'' The young mans color was RS
ing
..Are. not these the onesT" queried
the district attorney, making sign %
Sweetwater. who Immediately stepped
forward. with a shabby old ulster over
his arm and a battered derby In his
hand
The young man started. rose. then
sat again, shouting out with angry ern-
phaais:.
NOR
'@Yet you recognize these?
.sWhy shouldn't II They're mine,
Only / don't we6I them any more.
They're done for You must have
rooted them out nom some closet
'.Mr. Cumberland, the district AZ.
torney was veryserious-..tais hat and
this coat, old as they are. were worn
into town from your house that night.
: y
even truce them to the clubhouse.
Mechanically. not spontaneously tins
time. the young man rose 10 his feet
staring first at the man who had Mt.
tered these words then at the gar.
ments which SWeetwater stilI held in
view.
81 don't know anything about it,.
were the words with which be sought
to escape from the net which had been
thus deity cast about him. Il didn't
wear the things. Anybody can tell
you what clothes I came home IN
Ranelagh may have borrowed
-RaneIaeh wore his own coat and
hat. Mr.. Cumberland. you have told
us that you didn't know at the time
and can't remember now. where you
spent that night and most OF the next
morning. All you can remember is
that it was in some place where they
let you drink all you wished and leave
when the fancy took you. and not be
fore 1t was none of your usual
baunts, You dreaded to have your
sister know how soon you could es-
cape the influence Of that moment,
You wished TO drink your tlFand leave
your family none the wiser. Am
not right?"
Yes, II LSu -"
Why harp on TINT string ?"
"You cunnOt remember the saloon
in which you drank. That's possible
enough. but perhaps you can remem-
Der what they give you. Was Il
whisky, rum. absinth or whlt?'
The question took his irritable lis
tener by surprise. Arthur Gasped and
tried to steal some comfort from Coro-
ner Perry's eye, but thar old friends
face was too much in the shadow:
st misunderstanding he cried at last
"Fronn this bother queried the 9TH
er, motioninE again to Sweetwater.
who now brought forward the bottle
he had picked up in cuthbert road.
Arthur Cumberland glanced at the
bottle the detective held up. saw the
label, saw the shape and sank Imply
In his chair. his eyes surfing. his jaw
falling.
'where did yop get that2' he asked.
pulling himself together with sudden |
desperate self possession.
THAT answered the district attoF-
ney, twas picked up at a small hotel
on Cuthbert road. Just back of the |
markets. not far from the whispering I
Pines.'
81 don't know the place."
TITS not a high class resort, not Sc
lect enough by a long shot to have
this brand of liquor in Its cellar
There were only two bottles OF 1t left
In the clubhouse when the inventory /
was last taken. Those two bottles
are now gone, and"-
'This is one of them2 Is that what
you want to say? Well. 1t may be for
all know. didn't carry 1t there. 1
didn't have the drinking OF it"
I'VE have seen the man and woman
who keep that hotel. They viii talk
Il they have to-"
'Thcy will?' His logged self pos
session rather astonished them. well.
that ought TO please you. I've moth
Ing to do with the matter"
A change had taken place in him.
The irrltability approaching to VIC
Ience which had attended every
speech and infused itself into every
since he came into the
room had left him. He spoke quiet
y and with a touch Of irony in his
.one,
'"Then I have no doubt but you win
10 US this favor" volunteered Sweet
water In his pleasantest manner. ''It'sl
lot long walk from here. WIN you
90 there In my company, with your
.oat collar pulled up and your hat well
Town over your eyes, and ask for
Jeat In the snuggery and show them
his bottle? They won't know that it's
Empty. The man is sharp and the
woman intalliGent. They VIII see that
you are stranger and admit you
eadily. They are only shy OF one