News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1911-07-12

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"Yet you recognize these?"
"Why shouldn't L? They're mine
Only | don't wear them any more
They're done for. You must have
rooted them out from some closet"
mr. Cumberland,"-t district at
torney was very serious-"this hat ant
this coat. old as they are, were worn
into town from your house that night
This we know absolutely. We car
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.
~ don't know anything about it. "
were the words with which be sought
to escape from the net which had been
thus deftly east about him. II didn't
wear the things. Anybody can tell
you what clothes | came home in.
Ranelagh may have borrowed
"Ranelagb 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. 1t 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?"
"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 1t
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.
IT drank-absinth." he cried at last.
"From this bottle?" quered the 9th
er. motioning again to Sweetwater.
who now brought forward the bottle
he had picked mp 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
Where did you get that:" he asked
pulling himself together with sudden
desperate self possession.
That" answered the district attor-
ney. was picked up at small hotel
on Cuthbert road. just back of the
markets. not far from the Whispering
Pines"
~ don't know the place"
"rt's not high class resort. not Sc
lect enough by a long shot to have
this brand of liquor in its cellar.
There were only two bottles Of it 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 II there. /!
didn't have the drinking of It,"
1--WE have seen the man and woman
who keep that hotel. They will talk |
If they have to"
They willT' 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
movement since he came into the
room had left him. He spoke quiet.
Iy and with a touch of irony in his
tone.
'"Then have no doubt but you will
do US this favor" volunteered Sweet
water in his pieasantest manner. ITS
not long walk from here. VIII you
go there In my company. with your
coat collar pulled up and your hat well
down over your eyes, and ask for
seat in the snuggery and show them
this bottle? They won't know that it's
empty. The man is sharp and the
woman intelligent. They will see that
you are a stranger and admit you
readily. They are only shy of one
MANTLE man who drank there on the
might of your sisters murder"
You're a -" be began. with a
touch of his old violence. But, realiz-
ing. perhaps. that his fingers were in
a trap, be modified his manner again
and continued more quietly: This Is
an odd request to make. ! won't so
with you to that low drinking hell
unless you make me. but I'll swear
Don't swear" 1t is unnecessary TO
say who spoke. 1--WE wouldn't believe
you. and 1t would be only adding per-
Jury to the rest"
You wouldn't believe mep'
No; we have reasons, my boy.
There were two bottles"
"WellT'
The other has been found nearer
your home"
That's a trick. You're all up to
tricks
Not In this case. Arthur. Let me
entreat vou in memory of your father