Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-09-01

tain strong natures are able to as
sumo under the pressure Of great
emergencies.
SO long as she was deaf to all ap-
peal to rouse and explain the situa-
tion. he stood back. watchful and ST.
lent, but when finally reused and
showed q disposition to speak his
desperation drove him into question
Ing her In order to see how much she
understood of an attack which had
killed harmless stranger and let
herself go free.
":He asked her first If she could
tell them from which direction came
the arrow ;,o which ended this young
"'she made no reply in words. but
glanced significantly at the opposite
"This called from him the direct
inquiry: Did you see any one over
fellT" ,,.
"'she shook her head. Afterward
she explained the denial by saying
that she had been looking down into
the court.
"'But he did not cease his in
quiries Turning to the people crowd
Ing about him. he put the like ques-
ton to them, but. receiving no answer,
a silence followed, during which
woman suggested. in tones loud
cNOukH kOT Ill " LSdI, tHdtf lHCAo
were no arrows on the other side of
the court. but that the gallery where
they stood was full of them.
"'This seemed to alarm Mrs. Taylor.
Turning to the director, she asked
whether he was sure that the opposite
and when he replied that nothing of
the kind was to be found along its en-
tire length she proceeded to inquire
whether any such deed could be COM
mitted in a place SO open to view.
without attracting the observation Of
some one wandering in court or gall
"This. undoubtedly, to ascertain
the full extent of his danger. before
bestowing a thought upon herself.
cold precision Of thoroughly selfish
man, that II any one in the whole
building had seen SO much as a move-
ment in a spot SO under suspicion
that person would have been heard
from by this time. she faltered and
and why the people about her looked
at her so. He did not respond di-
rectly, but made some remark about
the police, which increased her alarm
to the point of an attempted justif1ca-
ton. She said that 1t was true about
the arrows, as any one could see by
looking up at the walls. But where
was the bow? No one could shoot an
arrow without a bow, and when some
one shouted that If an arrow was used
as dagger one wouldn't need a
bow, sort Of frenzy seized her and
she acted quite insane, falling at the
young girls side and whispering SEN
tence after sentence in her ear.
"'What more was needed to stamp
her as a mad woman in the eyes Of
the ordinary observer? Nothing. But
to you and me, with the cue just
given, 1t has another look. She had
just seen the man whom she had her
self spared from an accusation which
the coolest fashion an explanation
which left her own Innocence In doubt.
What wonder she auccumbed to tenn
porary aberration! AS will be re-
membeHsd, she soon became compare
until in an interview I had with her
a half hour or SO later I urged her.
possibly with too much insistence, for
some explanation of the extreme agi-
tation she had shown at the time,
markable statement that it was not
the child, but her husband, she was
mourning, stricken to death, as she
would have us believe, Simultaneous
ly with the young and innocent VIC
tim then lying dead at aa, her feet. ,ros
much too startling not to be regarded
by US all as the rawlings of delirium;
nor has anything occurred SINCE in
the Way Of communication from, or In :
regard to the absent one, to show
that this so-called warning of death
has been followed up by fact. But IL
you test her action by the theory
have just advanced. viz. that the man
she called husband was at that mo-
ment in the room with US and that
these words were a plea to him-the
last appeal of a broken-hearted wom-
an for, the support she felt to be her
due-Kow the atmosphere of unreason
and mystery clears itself! His sug-
gestion that what was needed there
was an alienist. and the pttiful EFFORTS
she made to exonerate herself without
duplicating him in the murderous
event, fall naturally into place, as the
action Of a guilty man and the self
denying conduct Of devoted wom-
an"
Romantic! too romantic!" objected
the district attorney. II should think
we were listening to one of Dumas
tales"
Dumas got his greatest effecta
from life, or so I have been told.
remarked the chief inspector.
Mr.. Gryce sat silent.
Suddenly, the district attorney OBJ.
served with the slightest tinge OF
irony edging his tone:
II presume you would hnd like
explanation for the messages she pro-
fessed to be sending to her husband,
when engaged in babbling fool words
into the dead girls ear"