News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1911-08-30
Yes; many times"

was the pines. but had to listel
| Once heard rushing sonnd--it wa
when the pines stopped swaying Il
was. 1t was all very dreadful"
WAS this rushing sound such as
window might make on being opened;
"lossibly. ! didn't think of it at tn
time hut ii might have been"
| Iron what direction did it come?
| "Back OF me. for turned my hea
about"
! where were you at the time?"
"At the hearth. 1t was before AIDE
laide came in"
"a near sound or far?
Far, but cannot locate it--indeed
cannot. | forgot 1t In moment"
But you remember it now?"
| "Yes."
other noises than those you speak of
That time you stepped into the hall
when your teeth chartered, you know
lid you hear nothing then but the sigh
ng of the pines?"
She looked startled. Her hands went
up. and one of them clutched at her
throat; then they fell. and slowly, care
fully. like one feeling his way, she an
swereo:
II had forgotten. | did hear some
thing-a sound in one OF the doorways.
1t was very faint-a sigh-a-a-I don't
know what 1t conveyed nothing to me
then and not much now. But you
asked. and | have answered
you have done right, Miss Cumber-
land. The jury ought to know these
facts. Was it human sigh!"
ut wasn't the sigh Of the pines"
"And you heard it in one Of the
ioorways? Which doorway"
1.-The one opposite the room in which
left my sister,"
1.-The doorway to the large hall?'
"Yes. sir"
Oh. the sinister memories! The mo-
nents which myself had spent there
after this time of her passing
through the hall. thank God!-but not
long after. And some one had been
there before me. Was 1t Arthur?
Carmel being innocent who could be
guilty but he? knew of no one. The
misery under which | had suffered was
only lightened. not removed.
Miss Cumberland. are you ready TO
swear that you did not hear step at
hat time or see faceY'
"Yes. sir.''
THAT you only heard sigh2"
"a sigh. or something like one.'
You went right onT"
"lmmediately."
Entering the telephone room?"
ayes"
1.-The door of which you shut?"
IL do not know. | must have. but
H.
"Never mind explanations. You do
not know whether you shut it or
some one else shut it,"
~ do not"
The words fell weight.ly. They
seemed to strike every heart.
Miss Cumberland. you have said
hat you telephoned for the police"
"Yes. for help"
"You were some minutes doing this,
you sayY"
II have reason to think so. but I
1on't know definitely. The candle
seemed shorter when | went out than
when | came in"
Are you sure you telephoned for
,elp?"
Help was what wanted-help for
nv sister. ! do not remember my |
words"
"And then you left the buildingT"
after going for my little bag"
did you see any one then or hear
my one?"
mo- sir"
Ibid you see your sister againT
II have said that l just glanced at
he couch"
Wouldn't you know if the pillows
ad been diSturbedw
mo, sit-not from the look l gave
hem"
Then they might have been disturb
d-might even have been rearranged
without your knowing it?"
They might"
Miss Cumberland. when you left
ne building. did you leave it alone"
81 did"
"Was the moon shining?'
mo; It was showing"
Did the moon shine when you went
} throw the vial out of the Window"
YES. very brightly"
bright enough for you to see the
nkST
II didn't look at the links"
Where were you looking"
behind me-
When you threw the vial out?"
"les."
What was there behind your"
"A dead sister," Oh. the indescrib-
Bile tone!
Forgive me. Miss Cumberland; ! do
ut want to trouble you. but was there
ut something OF some one in the ad-
lining room besides your dead sister
make you look back?'