The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1911-06-08
CHAPTER XXI.
There are two ways"

There are two ways.
Mention them, If you please"
',Zadok had been to a dance and may
not have been quite clear as to what
he saw, or, finding the stable deer
open, may have blamed himself for the
fact and sought to cover up his fault
with a lie"
Have you ever caught him in lie?''
mo. But there's always first
time
You would impeach his testimony
then"
"No. You have asked me how this
discrepancy could be explained, and I
have tried to show-you."
"Mr Cumberland, the gray mare was
out that night. This has been amply
proved"
''if you believe Zadek, yes"
'You have heard other testimony
corroborative of this fact. She was
seen ON the clubhouse road that night
I by a person amply qualified to identify
her"
$50 I've been told"
1.-THE person driving this horse wore
hat, identified rs an old one Of yours,
which hat was afterward found at
your house on remote peg in sell
dom used closet If you were not this
person, how can you explain the use
of your horse, the use Of your clothes,
the locking of the stable door-which
you declare yourself to have left open
and the hanging up Of the key on its
own nail?"
1t was a crucial question-how cru
cial no one knew bat our two selves.
If be answered at all he must COM
promise Carmel. 1 had no fear Of his
doing this, but I had great fear of
what Ella might do II he let this impH-
cation stand and made no effort to ex-
onerate himself by denying his pres
ence in the cutter and consequent re-
turn to the Cumberland home. The
quick side glances here observed cast
in her direction by both father and
mother showed that she had made
some impulsive demonstration visible
to them, if not to others, and, fearful
of the consequences If did not make
some effort TO hold her in check,
kept my eyes in her direction and so
lost Arthur's look and the look of his
counsel as he answered, with just the
word I had expected-ehort and dog
ged:
81 cannot explain"
1t was my death warrant. i realized
this even while held Hlla's eye with
mine and smoothed my countenance to
meet the anguish in hers, in the effort
to hold her back for q few minutes
longer till could quite satisfy myself
that Axthur's case was really lost and
that l must speak Or-feel myself his
murderer.
The gloom which feSowed this rec
ognition of his inability, real or fan
cied, to explain away the most damn
ing feature of the case against him,
taken with his own contradictions and
growing dependency. could not escape
my eye, accustomed as I was to the
habitual expression of most every per-
son there. But 1t was not yet the i'm
penetrable gloom presaging conviction
and, directing Elias gaze toward Mr..
Moffat, who seemed but little dis
turbed either by Mr.. Fox's satisfaction
or the prisoners open despair, 1 took
heart of grace and waited for the dis
trict attorneys next move. 1t was
fatal one. | began to recognize this
very soon, simple as was the subject
he now introduced.
when you went into the kitchen.
Mr.. Cumberland, to get the stable
door key, was the gas lit, or did you
have to light it,"
'It-it was lit, I think"
Don't you known
at was lit, but turned low. I could
see we'll enough"
Why, then. didn't you take both
keysT'
Both keys?'
You have said you went down town
by the short cut through your neigh
boris yard. That cut is guarded hy
DOR waich was locked that night.
You needed the key to that door more
than the one to the stable Why didn't
you take it?''
IL took it when I took the other"
"Are you sure?''
Yes: they both hung on one nail.
/ ghAbbed them both at the same
TINA"