The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1911-07-19
The House
of the
Whispering
Pines
D. ANNA KATHARINE GREEN
Copyright. 1910. by Anna Katharine
Rohlfs

II THAT will do for me-" said he, "but
scarcely for those who are prejudiced
against you. Everything points so
|indisputably to your guilt. The note
which you say you wrote to Carmel to
INJECT you at the station looks very
much more like one to Miss Cumber.
land TO meet you at the clubhouse"
1t was thus ! first learned which
| part OF this letter had been burned off.
IL was the top portion, leaving the rest
to read:
Come come. my DARLING. my life! She
Will forgive whom all {. done Hesitation
will only unuo ". Tonight at 1890
snail never marry any bu you.
1t was Also evident that had fail
ed to add those rXIrrs~ions OF atfec-
ton linked ~ GARNER name which
had been in lny mlnd aud awakened
Amy keeneSt apprehension
" "Othrrwisp." ite urr ,1i.inp. what
3 could have taken Lei rnrr,.: These
lines said Come. aid she went. tor
Y reasons which may he cir,r tu yuu.
u who were acquainted with nrr weak
as well as strong points Went now:
No one knows. Ry chance or ny in
q tention on her part or yours. every
servant was out of The house 10y 9
O'clock. and her brother too. Only the
sister remained. the sister whom you
profess to have urged to leave the
town with you that very evening, and
she can tell us nothing-may die with
nff oil I'm dn cn
shock to her feelings-you may know
its character and you may not-drove
her from q state Of apparent health
into the widest de!irium In a few
hours. 1t was not your letter-if your
story Is true about that letter-or she
would have shown its effect immedi-
ately upon receiving it-that is. in the
early evening. And she did not. Hell
en-. one of the maids. declares that she
saw her some time after you left the
house and that she wore anything but
a troubled look: that. in fact, her coun-
tenance was beaming and beautiful"
Carmel, beaming and beautiful at an
hour had supposed her suffering and
full of struggle. / could not reconcile
1t with the letter she had written me.
The lawyer proceeded with his pres
\ enta ton of my case as 1t looked to
unprejudiced eyes.
'Miss Cumberland comes to the club
house: so do you. You have not the
keys and so go searching about the
Building till you find an unlocked win
!. dow. by which you both enter. There
are those who say you purposely left
h this window unfastened when you
went about the house the day before;
x that you dropped the keys in her house
F where they would be sure to be found
(. and drove down to the station and
stood about there for good half hour
in order to divert suspicion from your
B self afterward and create an alibi In
. case II should be wanted l do not
believe any of this myself. but there
q are those who do. Your passion for
Carmel. while not generally known. has
not passed unsupported by your or
her intlmates. and this in itself is
enough to give color TO these suspi-
cions even If you had not gone so far
as to admit its power over you and
the extremes 10 which you were will
ing to go to secure the wife you wish
q ed. So much for the situation as II
n appears TO outsiders. OF the circum-
stantial evidence which links you per-
4 sonally to this crime we have already
spoken II is very strong and appar-
emily unassailable."
"Charles." asked. how do they
\ account for the cordial that was drunk
\ the two emptied glasses and the
flask which were found in the adjacent
4 closet?"
sIt's one of the affairs conceded in.