The Ocala evening star., 1911-06-24

what overcoat and .whar hat you wore
down street that night"
i've told you that don't remem-
ber" The young mans color was ris-
ing
Are not these the oupS:" queried
the district attorney. making sign to
Sweetwater. who Immediately stepped
forward. with IL shabby old ulster over
his arm and ~ battered derby in his
hand
The young man started. rose. then
sat again. shouting out with angry EN-
phasis:
Mo-
"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 cln$et."
MIR 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.
Il don't know anything about ii.
| were the words with which he sought
to escape from the net which had been
thus deftly cast about him. Il didn't
4 DIV rnl
you what clothes came home in
Ranelagh may have borrowed
| "Ranelagh wore his own coat and
hat NJ 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 il was in some place where they
let Won drink all you wished and leave
! when the fancy took you. and not he
fore Ii WAS none Of your usual
haunts You dreaded To have your
sister know now soon you could es-
cape the influence OF that moment.
You wished TO drink your till and ieav"
your family none the wiser. Am
not right"
Yes. 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 II
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 PerryS eye. hu1 that old friend 5
face WAS TOO much in rhe shadow.
Il drank -abSinrh." hP'rried at last.
From this boirle:" queried the 9th
er. morioninr again 10 Sweetwater.
who now brought forward the bottle
he had picked up in Curbhert road.
Arthur Cumberland glanced at the
bottle the detective held up. saw the
labe.. saw the shape and sank Imply
in his chair his eyes starting. his jaw
!, falling.
Where did you get that:" be asked.
pulling himself together with sudden
desperate self possession
That" answered the district attor-
ney. was picked up at a small hotel
on Curhbert road. just hack of the
markets. not far from the WI pering
Pines"
II don't know the place"
It's not a high class resort. not Sc
lect enough by long shot 10 have
7 this brand of liqnor in its cellar
There were only two bottles Of II left
,. In the clubhouse when the inventory
4 was last taken. Those two bottles
are now gone. and
= This is one Of them? Is that what
: you want to say? Well. II may be fol
all know didn't carry ii there.
;. didn't have the drinking of II"
I'VE have seen the man and womaI
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