The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1912-02-10

The House of the
BY ANNA
KATHARINE
GREEN
Copyright. 1910.
BY Anna Katharine RohIfs
CHAPTER XVII.
ALL THIS STOOD.

ALL THIS STOOD.
~ SHALL spare you the opening
details of the trial. also much OF
preliminary testimony. Enough
that Mt the close of the sixth day
the outlook was serious one for AR
thur Cumberland. The prosecution ap-
peared 10 be making good it's claims.
The quiet and unexpectedly dignitied
way In which at the beginning the
defendant had faced the whole antag.
onistic courtroom with the simple
plea OF mot guilty" was being slowly
but surely forgotten In the accumulat.
ed proofs OF his disconnected life under
his sisters dominating influence. his
desire for independence and a free use
OF the money held I'm trust for him by
this sister under their fathers will.
the quarrels which such a situation
would naturally evoke between charac.
tiers cast in such different molds and
actuated by such opposing tastes and
principles, and the tinal elimination
Of the same at the dinner table when
Adelaide forced him. as il were. to sub
scribe TO her prohibition of all further
use of liquor In their house. Follow
ing this evidence of motive came the
still more damaging one OF oppor-
tunity. He was shown to have been
in the clubhouse at or near the time of
Adelaides death. The matter of the
bottles was gone into and the event in
Cuthbert road. Then | was called TO
the stand and my testimony asked for.
| had prepared myself for the ordeal
and faced 1t unfinchlngly. That /
might keep intact the one point neces-
sary TO Carmels safety l met my in
quisitors now. as before. with the ut
most candor in all other respects. In.
deed, In one particular was even
more exact In my details than at any
previous examination. acknowledged
what | had hitherto concealed, that In
my first entrance into the clubhouse
had come upon mans derby hat and
coat hanging in the lower hall. and
when questioned more infinitely on the
subject allowed it TO appear that il
was owing TO the disappearance OF
these articles during my stay upstairs
that | had been led into saying that
some one had driven away from the
Whispering Pines before the coming
OF the police.
This. as you will see. was In open
contradiction of my former statements
that ! had seen an unknown party
thus attired driving away through the
I b.
the lower. But 1t was n contradiction
which. while noted by Mr.. Moffat.
Arthur's lawyer. failed TO injure me
with the jury and much less with the
spectators That | should prevaricate
even 10 my own detriment at a pre-
limlnary examination only to tell the
truth openly and like man when in
court and under the sanctity OF an
oath was. in the popular estimation
something 70 my credit. and Mr.. Moi
fat. whose chief recommendation rs
counsel lay In his quick appreciation
OF the exigencies OF the moment. die
not press me too sharply on this point
when he came to his cross examina
ton.
But I'm other respects he drove me
hard. An effort was made by him
first of all TO discredit me as wit.
ness. My lack of appreciation for
Adelaide and my secret but absorbing
love for Carmel were inexorably
brought out; also the easy. happy-go
lucky tenor of my life and my dogged
persistence in any course thought
consistent with nv happiness Nv