The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1911-05-16

n 4errIrr So Gag viI nc Irort
rilh rou. IS common question may
me ur DINERS ID u4
r ll To9
f1Enef,
~ llfIieilf ~ rlI kan - 10 mat IN.
IL house. bnt I can iglys no reason
Tor IT.
ZION fay you cannot be open
me. That means yOl have certain
memories connected with that night
T5Ilicd yo1 cannot ilIYulges,
Ett Glldtles. but NOT memories
OF f,diIt--5f aetfNe RIIiit. mean.
am PERFECTLY Innocent 30 Tar ~ A6e-
ladies death s concerned. You may
proceed on. that basis without fear
tI1a { IS. e :yori, continue. 70 take an In
tere5t In my case.
Il have accepted the ease. ana /
shall continue TO interest myself IN
ft'. be asSIIrid me. sdoeged
rather than genial persistence. sBut
sl1ould like to know what am to
work upon e Il cannot BE shown that
her call for help came before you en-
tered the building
esThat would be the best defense
possible Of course" / replied. .'but
neither from your standpoint nor mine
Is SC a feasible one. have no proof
OF my assertion An I.know ana can
swear TO about the length OF time
yvns In that building prior to the. ar
rival OF the police IS that Il could not
have been very long. since she was
not only dead and buried under those
accumulated cushions. but ina room
some little distance from the tele-1
phone.n
THAT VIII DO for me- said he, 'Fbut
scarcely for those who are prejudieed
against you. Everything points 50
lndisputably to 3yonr guilt. The note
which you say youf wrote to Carmel to
meet you at the, station looks very
much more Ike one to Miss Cumber-
land TO meet you at the clubhouse"
1t was thus first learned which
part OF this letter had been burned Oh,
It was the top portion. IeHVing the rest
to read:
Come. come. my darling. my NE! She
VIII forgive when all IS done. Hesitation
win only undo US. Tonight At 1880.
shan never marry any but You.
It was also evident that / had fall
ed to add those expressions OF aHec-
ton linked to Carmel's name which
had been in MY mind ana awakened
my keenest apprehension.
.'Otherwise." pursued Clifton. what
aAAsG
lines said Gomez and she went. for
reasons which may be clear to you.
who were acquainted with her weak
as well as strong points. Went how?
Nd one knows. BY chance or by In
tentfon on her part or yours, every
servant was out OF the house by 8
O'Clock. and her brother too Only the
sister remained, the sister whom you
profess to have urged to leave the
town with you that very evening, and
she can tell us nothing-may die with
out ever being able TO do so. Some
shock to her feelinEs-you may know
its character and you may not-drove
her from a state OF apparent health
into the widest delirium in a few
hours. It was not your letter-if your
story is true about that letfer-or she
would have shown its erect immedi- \
ately upon receiving it-tbat Is. in the
early evening. And she did not. Hell
en-. one OF the maids, declares that she
saw her some time after you left the
house and that she wore anything but
a troubled look; that, in fact. her conn
tenance was beaming and beautiful"
Carmel. beaming and beautiful at IN
hour 1 had Supposed her suffering and
full of struggle! i could not reconcile
It with the letter she had written me.
The lawyer proceeded with his pres
entation of my case as It looked to
unprecedented eyes.
miss Cumberland comes to the club
house; so do you. You have not the
keys and SO go searching about the
building TIL you find an unlocked win
dow. by which you both enter. There
are those who say you purposely left
this window unfastened when you
went about the house the day before;
that you dropped the keys IN her house
where they would be sure to be found
and drove down to the station and
stood about there for good half hour
in order to divert suspicion from your
self afterward and create an altbt In
case it should be wanted do not
believe any OF this myself. but there
are those who do Your passion for
Carmel, while not generally known. has
not passed unsuspected by your or
her intimates, and this in itself is
enough to give color to these suSpi-
cions even IL You had not gone so far
ne to admit its power over you and
the extremes to which you were Will
ing to 20 to secure the wife you wish
ed So much for the situation as 1t
appears to outsiders. OF the circum-
stnntiaI evidence which links you per-
sonafIy to this crime we have already
spoken It is very strong ana appar-
emily unassailable."
4a5harles,P / asked, "how 90 they
III A1,1af-