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but NJ. de Kerhoet as well as Mr.
Kelly must be told of the whole thing
Immediately.
when 1 left him." concluded the
young man, she was sitting on a tree
stump by the pond, smoking his pipe,
and l walked toward Wood Cottage"
DO you know what became Of the
checks?" asked Skin O. My Tooth.
"Old Whadcoat had them In his
pocket when 1 left him. / conclude,
as there has been no mention of them
by the police, that they have not been
found :"
There was so much simplicity and
stralghtfOrwardness In Edward KeHy's
narrative, that I, for one, was ready
to believe every word Of 1T But Skin
o My TOoth's face was inserutable
He sat IN low chair with his hands
folded before him, his eyes shut, and
general air of polite imbecihty about
see that our client was viewing him
with a certain amount Of irritabiIity
Well, Mr. MuTIigan2" he said at
last, with nervous impatience
Wei, sr," replied Skin O. Ny
Tooth, 1t strikes me that what with
your quarrel with the deceased, the
asslgnatIon IN the woods, his postum
nous denunciatiOn of you as his assas-
SIN, and dying words, we have about as
sSr1" '--- 81
In all cases of this sort, my dear
sn," continued Skin o My Tooth
quietly, "the great thing Is to keep
absolutely cool IF you are innocent
remember, 1 do not doubt it for a
moment-then I Will bring that crime
home to its perpetrator Justice never
mlscarries- least, when I have the
guidance of it IN my hands"
1t would be impossible to render the
tone of supreme conceit with which
Skin O My Tooth made this last
assertion; but it had the desired effect,
for Edward Kelly frightened up visibIy
as he said:
az have implicit faith in you, Mr..
again?"
On Monday. before the magistrate
l can get that remand for you, I
think, and then We shall have free
hand. Now we had better get along
want to have q quiet think over
this affair"
On the Monday, Edward Kelly was
formally charged before the clerk;
and must say that when then heard
the formidable array of cireumstantiaI
evidence which the police had collected
against our client, / sadly began to
fear that not even by the skin OF his
teeth would Edward Kelly escape from
the awful hole In which he was liter
ally WaIowing. However, Skin O. NV
Tooth hammered away at the police
evidence with regard to the dog. The
prosecution made a great point Of the
face that Mr. WhadcOat and Rags"
had been killed by the same gun and
at the same time and place, and the
one point in Edward KelIv's favor was
that neither of his servants at Wood
Cottage, nor the witness who saw him
enter the wood, could swear that
the dog was with him on that day
On the strength OF that, and for the
purpose of collecting further evidence
with regard to the dog, Skin o My
Tooth finally succeeded IN obtaining a
remand until the following Friday.
Personally l thought that here was
quite sufficient evidence for hanging
any man without the testimony Of
the dead dog, but I an quite aware
that my opinion counts for very
little
Now, Muggins," said Skin O Ny
Tooth to me later IN the day, "the
fun Is about to begin You do down
TO Courts this afternoon and find out
all about the checks which cauzed the