News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1911-08-09

II was a tIuClul itlN'''4N' $3.50 - -
cial no one knew but our two selves
If he answered at all he must com
promise Carmel. | had no fear OF his
doing this. but ! had great fear OF
what Ella might do If he let this impll
cation stand and made no effort TO eN
onerate himself by denying his pres
ence in the cutter and consequent re-
turn to the Cumberland home. The
quick side gances | here observed cast
in her direction by both father and
mother showed that she had made
some impulsive demonstration visible
to them, if not to others, and, fearful
of the consequences if l did not make
some effort to hold her in check.
kept my eyes in her direction and so
! lost Arthur's look and the look of his
counsel as he answered with just the
word | had eXpected-short and dog
ged:
81 cannot explain"
1t was my death warrant. realized
this even while I held Elias eye with
mine and smoothed my countenance to
meet the anguish in hers, in the effort
to hold her back for Il few minutes
longer till | could quite satisfy myself
that Arthur's case was really lost and
that l must speak or feel myself his
murderer
The gloom which followed this rec
ognition of his inability, real or fan
cied, to explain away the most damn
ing feature of the case against him,
taken with his own contradictions and
growing dependency, could not escape
my eye. accustomed as | was to the
habituaI expression of most every per-
son there But it was not yet the i'm
penetrable gloom presaging conviction.
and, directing Elias gaze toward Mr..
Moffat, who seemed but little dis
turbed either by Mr.. FoX's satisfaction
or the prisoners open despair, l took
heart of grace and waited for the dis
trict attorneys next move 1t was
fatal one. | began to recognize this
very soon. simple as was the subject
he now introduced.
when you went into the kitchen,
Mr.. Cumberland, to get the stable
door key. was the gas lit, or did you
have to light it|'
Tit was lit, think"
Don't you knOW?
at was lit, but turned low. | could
see well enough"
why. then, didn't you take both
keysT
Both keys"
You have said you went down town
by the short cut through your neigh
boris yard. That cut is guarded by a
door which was locked that night
You needed the key to that door more
than the one to the stable. Why didn't
you take it?"
IL took it when | took the other"
Are you sure?"
yes; they both hung on one nail.
l grabbed them both at the same
time" f-oi
(Which of the two hung foremostY
II didn't notice"
"YOu took bOth?'
~ eS, L TOOK DOtn.
"And went straight out with them?' |
Eyes, to the stable"
"And then whereof
Through the adjoining grounds |
downtown"
You are sure you went through Mr.. |
Fulton's grounds at this early hour in |
the EVENING"
Il am positive"
WAS it not at later hour, much |
ater, little before II instead of Il
little before 90"
mo, sir. l was on the golf links
hen
But some one drove into the stable"
$50 you say"
Embarrassed the horse, drew up the
utter, locked the stable door and, en-
ering the house, hung up the key
where it belonged" I
No answer this time.
"Mr Cumberland, you admitted in
your direct examination that you took
with you out of the clubhouse only
,ne bottle of the especial brand you
favored, although you carried up two
nto the kitchen?"
' NO: said that l only had one when
got to Cuthbert road. l don't remem-
Der anything about the other"
But you know where the other-or,
ather. remnants of the other-was
ound?"
'In my own stable, taken there by
ny man Zadok Brown, who says he
licked it out of one of our waste bar
els"
This is the part of bottle referred
o. Do you recognize the label still adj
lering to'it as similar to the one to be
ound on the bottle you emptied in
'uthbert road?"
at is like that one"
Had YOU carried that other bottle
If. and had it been broken as this has
zen broken. would it not have pre-
ented an exactly similar appearance
0 thiS?"
Possibly"
"Only possibly"
at would have looked the same: I
annot deny it. What's the use fool
n.y."
"Mr. Cumberland. the only two bot
les known to contain this especial :