Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1912-01-25
BY ANNA
GREENE
Copyright 1870.
BY Anna Katharine Rohlfs
CHAPTER XXI.

tened to Zadok Browns testi-
mony. When he returned at 3 he found
the stable door locked and the key
hanging up on it's usual nail in the
kitchen. How do you account for
thiS?"
"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 door
open, may have blamed himself for the
fact and sought to cover up his fault
with a lie"
"Have you vel caught him in a lie?"
mo. But there's always a first
time"
"You would impeach his testimony
then?"
mo. You have asked me how this
discrepancy could be explained, and
have tried to show you"
"Mr. Cumberland, the gray mare was
out that night. This has been amply
proved"
''1f you believe Zadok. yes"
AoO udNC uCd4u otAC ICoLAAAOAy
c~orroborative Of this fact. She was
seen on the clubhouse road that night
by a person amply qualified to identify
her."
$50 I've been told"
"The person driving this horse wore
a hat, identified as an old one of yours,
which hat was afterward found at
your house on a remote peg in a sell
dom used closet. If you were not this
person. how can you explain the use
1t 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 it's
own nail?"
1t was a crucial question-how cru
cial no n knew but u two selves.
If he answered at all he must COM
promise Carmel. l had no fear Of his
doing this. but I had great fear of
what Ella might do if he let this impli-
cation stand and made no effort to ex-
onerate himself by denying his pres
enc in the cutter and consequent re-
turn to the Cumberland home. The
quick side glances I 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 I did not make
some effort to hold her in check, I
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-short and dog
ged:
81 cannot explain"
1t was my death warrant. I realized
, this even while I held Elias eye with
mine and smoothed my countenance to
meet the anguish in hers, in the effort
to hold her back for a few minutes
longer till l could quite satisfy myself
that Arthur's case was really lost and
that l must speak or feel myself his
murderer.
The gloom which followed this rec
ognition of his inability, real or fan
cied. to explain away the most damn
ing feature of the case against him,
LdhCu Will Ills O"u COltl UulCIlOuS UAUl
growing dependency. could not escape
my eye, accustomed as l was to the
habitual expression of most every per-
o. there. But it was not yet the i'm
p%enetrable gloom presaging conviction.
and, directing Elias gaze toward Mr..
Moffat, who seemed but little dis
turbed either by Mr.. Fox's satisfaction
~ thu orSroro~,. NrDr 1ocr0Sr 7 fN\1y
heart Of grace and waited for the dis
trict attorneys next move. 1t was a
fatal one l began to recognize this
very soon. simple as was the subject
he now introduced.
when you went into the kitchen.
MI. Cumberland, to get the stable
dAor key. was the gas lit, OF did you
have to light it," .r
"It-it was lit. I think"
Don't you know?"
ut was lit. but turned low. l could
see we'll enough"
"Why then. didn't you take. both
Keys"
Both keys?"
You have said you went down town
by the short cut through your neigh.
boris yard. That cut Is guarded by a
door which was locked that night.
You needed the key to that door more
than the one to the stable. Why didn't
you take it"
I'll tool it when l took the other
"Are you sure"
"Yes; they both hung on n nail.
I grabbed them both at the same
time"
(Which of the two hung foremost?'
II didn't notice."
"You took both?'
Eyes, l took BOTH"
"And went straight out with themT'
Eyes, to the stable"
"And then where?"
Through the adjoining grounds
downtown"
"You are sure you went through Mr..
Fulton's grounds at this early hour in