Perth Amboy evening news., 1911-05-20

TINdEIho ON L IhIhCh1s
meaning If only we could find it out
And a small flask Of cordial. The lat
ter seems pure enough"
81 cannot understand It." The
phrase had become stereotyped. No
other suggested itself to me.
1.-The problem would be simple
enough>if 1t were not for those marks
on her neck. You saw those, too, l
take itP
"Yes. Who made them2 Who was
the man? Do you know. DR.. Perry?'
There we're three glasses In those
rooms. Only two were drunk FROM"
he answered steadily. Tomorrow I
may be In q position to answer your
question. l am not tonight"
Why did / take heart Not a change,
not the flicker OF one. had passed owe
his c~ountenance at my utterance of
the word "man." Either his official
habit had stood him In wonderful
stead or the police had failed so far
to see any connection between this
murder and the young girl whose foot
prints for all l knew still fingered on
the stairs. Would the morrow reveal
the fact that Adelaide's young sister
had been with her in the hour of
death or would the fates propitiously
aid her In preserving this secret7
Thus the hours between 2 and Z
passed, when l fell into a ftful sleep,
from which l was rudely awakened by
q loud rattle at my door. followed by
the entrance of the officer who had
walked up and down the corridor all
night
1.-THE wagon IS bere," said he.
breakfast will be given you at the
station"
TO which Hexford. looking over his
shoulder. added. I'm sorry to say that
we have here the warrant for your
arrest Can l do anything for your
Warrant" l burst out. what do
you want Of a warrantY 1t is as a
witness you seek to detain me, I pre-
sumeT"
mo-" was bis brusque reply. "The
charge upon which you are arrested is
one OF murder. You will have to ap-
pear before a magistrate"
But | am innocent, absolutely In
nocent." ! protested, the p%erspiration
starting from every pore as the full
meaning of the charge burst upon me-.
What 1 have told you was correct. I
myself found her dead"-
Hexford gave me a look.
"Don't talk" be kindly suggested.
sAT oora tLat 20 thu toyruopS ~ rThnp
as the other man turned aside for a
moment, he whispered In my ear: "It's
no 90. One of our men say you with
your fingers on her throat. He had
clambered into a pine tree, and the
shade of the window was up. You had
better come quietly. Not a soul be-
lieves you innocent"
This, then. was what had doomed
me from the start-this and that part
ly burned letter. | understood now
why the kind hearted oroner. who
loved my father, bad urged me to tell
my tale, hoping that / would explain
this act and give him some opportunity
to indulge In a doubt And I had fail
ed to respond to the hint be had given
me. l had been seen lingering my
dead betrothed's throat, and nothing I
could now say or do would ever con-
vince people that she was dead before
my hands touched her, strangled by
another's clutch. One person only In
the whole world would know and feel
how false this accusation was. And
yesterday that ones trust IN my guilt.
lessness would have thrown a ray Of
light upon the deepest iufamy which
could bsfali me. But today there had
settled over that once innocent spirit
4 cloud OF too impsRstTabiS a nature
for any light to struggle to and fro be-
tween US.
! could not contemplate that cloud.
I could not dwell upon her misery or
upon the revulsiou Of feeling which
follows such impstuous acts- And 1t
had been an impstuous act the result
Of one Of her RACES. ] had been told
Of thses raseH had even seen her in