New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1911-09-06

forward. with shabby old ulster owe
his arm and battered derby In hi.
hand
The young man started. rose, ther
sat again, shouting out with angry EN-
} phasis:
"NO!'
"Yet you recognize these?"
"Why shouldn't 1? They're mine
Only don't wear them any more
They're done for. You must have
rooted them out from some closet"
i 'Mr Cumberland" district at
torney was very serious. this hat and
this coat. old as they are. were worn
into town from your house that night.
This we know absolutely. We can
even trace them to the clubhouse
Mechanically, not spontaneously this
time. the young man rose to his feet.
staring first at the man who had ut
tered these words. then at the gar
ments which Sweetwater still held in
view.
II don't know anything about IT."
were the words with which be sought
to escape from the net which had been
thus deftly cast about him. II didn't
wear the things. Anybody can tell
you. what clothes I came home in.
Ranelagh may have borrowed
"Ranelagh 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. sIt was none of your usual
haunts You dreaded to have your
sister know how soon you could es-
cape the influence of that moment.
You wished to drink your fill and leave
your family none the wiser. Am
not right?"
Eyes. it's plain enough, isn't it?
Why harp on that string?"
you cannot remember the saloon
in which you drank. That's possible
enough. but perhaps you can remem-
Der what they gave you. Was it
whisky, rum. absinth or what?"
The question took his irritable lis
tener by surprise. Arthur gasped and
tried to steal some comfort from Coro-
ner Perry's eye, but that old friends
face was too much in the shadow.
II drank-absinth." he cried at last.
"From this bother queried the 9TH
er. motioning 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 starting. his jaw
falling.
'sWhere did you get that?' he asked.
pulling himself together with sudden
desperate self possession.
THAT" answered the district attor-
ney. twas picked up at a small hotel
on Cuthbert road. just back Of the
markets. not far from the Whispering
Pines"
II don't know the place"
TITS not high class resort. not Sc
lect enough by 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 them? Is that what |
you want to say? Well. it may be for
all know. didn't carry It there. I
didn't have the drinking of it,
I'VE have seen the man and woman
who keep that hotel. They will talk
If they have to-"
They 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 irritability approaching to vio-
lence which had attended every
speech and infused itself into every
since be came into the
room bad left him. He spoke quiet.
" and with touch Of irony in his
tone.
"Then have no doubt but you will
DO us this favor" volunteered Sweet
water In his pleasantest manner. Its
not long walk from here. Will you
90 there in my company. with your
coat collar pulled up and your hat we'll
Town over your eyes. and ask for
'eat in the snuggery and show them
his bottle? They won't know that it's
empty. The man is sharp and the
woman intelligent. They will see that
'ou are stranger and admit you
eadily. They are only shy of one
man who drank there on the
light of your sisters murder"
you're -" he began. with q
ouch Of his old violence But. realiz- l
ng, perhaps, that his fingers we're in
trap. be modified bis manner again
nd continued more quietly: "This is ]
n odd request to make. l won't 20
With you to that low drinking hell
Mess you make me. but I'll swear
Don't swear" 1t is unnecessary to d
az who spoke. 1--WE wouldn't believe q