The Washington times., 1920-06-06


knew the sest was at hand I
looked at uncle. His broad and
ease 80 sosd-hsnAored fsoe ives set
vsry arusy. Ne. tso. wss srsoins
himseif for what Was coming.
I had not seen Celeste for sew.
eral months. Wken she Left Ne !
had said that would give her .
character II she wsS looking for
another place. had no cytsoa.
much as 1 dislfked her. tS there
was nothing tangible against her.
But I had not heard froD her and
d1d not know st Al whaf ahe bsd
been doing iu the moantiasa
She had not been long In the box
befsre Il became very evident whaf
one of the things was that she hsd
been do4ag. She had talked. but
the counsel had been veii coached
By his solicitor-I beaseve thsf Ii
the process-in the Quest1Ons that
he should ssk IN order 10 Srtng OIL
In their strongest and icss fs~sr-
able light the various meetings -
London and elsewhere of Aunt
Enid and her lover.
Il was not until she began to
speak of these that the prisoner
turned In the dock - as 10 eve
me a full view Of his face Htther-
10 ne had faced away Iron me 1
heard him reply MOT 0uAaty" TO
the usual challenSs. bat ! hAd prac-
ticsily not seen hin.
His mustaches. which we're his
most obvious peculiarly. had been
closely shaved. as l was told. and
his whole appearance greatly ~
tered when ne was arrested. bat he
had Lea them grow again In prison,
and / could not see that he hooked
at all different from the man whnn
I had so cordially hisliked at Scot
ney. except that his fsoe. Which
was then bronzed from the Indian
sun and Life In the open air. was
now very pale-fhe result, ] fmas-
ine, OF being within doors. He
was plainly very nervous and
scarcely ceased 10 clasp and un-
clasp his hands on the front Of the
dock. but that, after al. was not
unnatural.
Celeste's account Of his meetings
with my young aunt appeared TO
interest him more than any Of the
evidence which had preceded It.
Perhaps he was wondering how
much she knew, or perhaps-thfs
idea also fiashsd across me as i
watched him-he was wondering at
her power OF invention. How
much OF what she said might be
true / had no means Of knowing,
hut II only q half Of It were vera
cious the meetings must have been
far more frequent than /. At least.
ever had suspected.
Counsel On both sides really did
seem to understand that this eX-
posure to the vulgar view of his
domestic troubles must be a very
CHASTITY indignity and grief for
Uncle Ralph to suffer. for when
he was called rs witness neither
In examination nor cross-examina.
tion was he harassed further than
was necessary to elicit the essen
tial facts. He had, of course. to
make public a great deal moro
than he had revealed at the in
quest.
Ceieste's evidence had already
borne frank witness to certain dis.
agreements between husband and
wife on account of Captain Wharf,
and uncle candidly told the Jury
that he had in the first instance
ordered Captain Wharf out of the
house on the Thuisday evening,
but had agreed subsequently that
he should remain until the follow
ing morning in order not to give
the servants occasion to suspect a
scandal. ] was terribly sorry for
uncle when the counsel for the
crown began to ask him about his
interview with Aunt Enid on the
subject, but il was a brief torture,
for uncle said at once that he had
extracted q promise from her that
she would never see or communi-
SotC III any way Win ZIG SoPboAh
again.
In spite Of which promise she
had, on the very next morning, II
Celeste's evidence were to be be-
lieved, received, by Celeste's own
hand, a note from the captain.
When the prisoner was first ar-
rested in Paris he had protested
his utter innocence of the crime
and had denied that he had ever
left London on the night when II
was committed. Evidence was put
IN to show that this was the line
that he had taken on his arrest.
But almost as soon as ever he
came into the box and began to
answer the questions which his
counsel put to him II was plain
that he had abandoned this line
altogether. Presumably he had
been better advised in the interval,
seeing how strong the facts we're
against him.
II was for this reason, because
he was prepared to make full ad.
mission of the fact that he had Wis
tied Scotney that evening, that
Matilda Manson was not more Sc
narnlu chn