Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1912-05-03

rooted them out from some Closet
"Nr. Cumberland."-the district at
torney was very serious-"this hat ant
this coat Old as they are. were worI
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.
II don't know anything about 1t.
were the words with which he sought
TO escape from the net which had been
thus deity cast about him. Il didn't
wear the things. Anybody can tell
you what clothes l came home In
Ranelagh may have borrowed
"Ranelach 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 I
not right"
Eyes. 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 bother Queried the 9TH
er. motioning again to Sweetwater.
who now brought forward the bottle
he had picked up 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 a small hotel
on Cuth5ert road. just back Of the
markets, not far from the Whispering
Pines"
II don't know the place"
TITS not a high class resort. not Sc
lect enough by long shot to have
this brand Of liquor in its cellar.
There we're only two bottles Of It left
in the clubhouse when the inventory
was last taken. Those two bottles
are now gone. and
This IL one Of them? Is that what
you want to say? Well. it may be for
all know. didn't carry 1t there. I
didn't have the drinking Of It,"
I'VE have seen the man and woman
who keep that hotel. They will talk
II they have to-"
'Thcy willy 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
NOV ement since he came into the
room had left him. He spoke quiet.
" and with a touch Of irony in his
tone.
Then / have no doubt but you will
do rs this favor. volunteered Sweet.
water in his pleasantest manner. Its
not a long walk from here. Will you
60 there In my company. with your
coat collar pulled up and your hat we'll
down over your eyes. and ask for Z
seat in the snuggery and show them
this bottle? They won't know that ia
empty. The man Is sharp and the
woman intelligent. They will see that
you are stranger and admit you
readily. They are only shy of one
man-the man who drank there on the
night Of your sisters murder"
You're q -" be began, with q
touch Of bis old violence. But. realiz.
ing. perhaps. that his fingers were In
q trap. he modified his manner again
and continued more quietly: This ID
an odd request to make. won't 70
with you to that low drinking hell
unless you make me. but I'll swear
Don't swear" It Il unnecessary ia
say who spoke. I'VE wouldn't believe
You, and 1t would be only adding per.
jury to the rest"
"You wouldn't believe me?'
mo: we have reasons. my boy.
There were two bottles"
"Well?'
THE other has been found nearer
your home"
That's trick. You're all up to
trlcks"-
mot In this case. Arthur. Let me
entreat you in memory Of your father
to be candid with us. We have ar.
rested q man. He denies his guilt, but
can produce no witnesses in support
Of his assertions. Yet such witnesses
may exist Indeed. we think that one
such does exist The man who took
The bottles from tho clubhouse's VIM
vault did % within a few minutes Of
the time when this crime was perpe-
trated on your sister. He should be
able to give valuable testimony for or
against Elwood Ranelagh."
This is awfulw Young Cumberland
had risen to his feet and was sway
ing to and fro before them like a man
struck between the eyes by some mad.
dening blow.
= IF I had only died that nightr' he
muttered. with his eyes upon the hoor
~ and every mus.
@% Gle tense with
%1 the shock Of this
rNN y last ca "a nifty.
@V|k "Dr. Perry. let
UI% me 60 for to-