News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1911-08-09
The House
OF the
Whispering
Pines
BY ANNA KATHARINE GREEN
Copyright. 1910, by Anna Katharine
Rohlfs
CONTINUED
BY ANNA KATHARINE GREEN

1t was a good way from the house
The snow came on very fiercely. Fol
little while | could not see my way
How not see your way"
"The snow flew into my eyes"
Crossing the links?'
yes, sir; crossing the links"
But the storm came from the west
1t should have beaten against youl
back
Back or front, it bothered me.
could not get on as fast as l wished"
Mr.. Fox cast a look at the jury. Did
they remember the testimony of the
landlord that Mr.. Cumberlands coat
was as thickly plastered with snow on
the front as it had been on the back?
He seemed to gather that they did, for
he went on at once to say:
you are accustomed to the links
You have crossed them often?"
Yes; play golf there all summer"
I'm not abiding to the times when
you play. l mean to ask whether or
not you had ever before crossed them
directly to Cuthbert road?"
Eyes, | had"
"In a Storm"
mo, not in storm"
"IIow long did it take you that time
to reach Cuthbert road from the NVhis-
pering Pines?"
Mr.. Mofat bounded to his feet. but
the prisoner had answered before he
could speak.
"JuSt fifteen minutes"
Glow came you to know the time so
eXactly?"
because that day did look at my
watch I had an engagement in the
lower town and had only twenty min
utes in which to keep it. l was on
time"
Honest at the core, This boy was
growing rapidly in my favor. But this
frank but unwiso answer was nor
pleasing to his connepl who would
have advised. no doubt. more gen
eral and less precise reply. However.
It had been made, and Moffnt w"s rot
a man to cry over spilled milk. He did
not even vince when the district at
torney proceeded to elicit from the
prisoner that he was a good walker
Now, as the storm that night had been
Mt his back and he was in q hurry to
reach his destination it was evidently
incumbent upon him to explain how
he had managed to use up the inter
vening time Of forty minutes before
tho I,0+ol -
did you stop in the midst of the
storm to take a drink" asked the dis
trict attorney.
As the testimony Of the landlord in
Cuthbert road had been explicit as
to the fact of his having himself I'M
corked the bottle which the prisoner
had brought into the hotel Arthur
could not plead yes. He must say no,
and he did.
81 drank nothing. was too busy
thinking. | was so busy thinking |
wandered all over those links"
an the binding snow?"
''Yes, in the snow. What did l care
for the snow? | did not understand
my sister being in the clubhouse. |
did not like it. was tempted at times
TO go back
"And why didn't you"
Because | was more of brute than
d brother: because Cuthbert road drew |
me in spite of myself; BECAUSE He |
stopped with the first hint of emotion
I'VE had seen in him since the morn |
ing. Il did not know what was going |
on there or should have gone back"
his counsel.
"When you heard your sisters voice |
in the clubhouse how did you think
she had got into the buildng"
"By means of the keys Ranelagh |
had left at the house"
when. instead Of taking the whole
bunch. you took the one key you want |
ed from the ring did you do so with .
any idea she might want to make use
of the restT
"No; never thought of it. l never
thought of her at ALL"
"You took your one key and let the
rest lie?'
you've said it."
WAS this before or after you put on
your overcOat?"
I'm not sure-after, / think. Yes,
It was after, for remember that had
D deuce of a time unbuttoning my coat
to get at my trousers pocket
You dropped this key. into your
trousers pocket?"
Il did"
mir. Cumberland, let me ask you to
FIX your memory on the moments you
scent in the hall. Did you put on
your hat before you pocketed the key
Or afterward?''
MY hat? How can tell? Ny mind
u, sn't on my hat. | don't know when
nut it on"
Nor where you took it from?'
No"
Whether you saw the keys first and
then went for your hat or, having
Docketed the key, waited