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tial facts. He had, Of course. to
make public 3 treat deal more than

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make public q great deal more than
Celeste'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 Thursday evening, but had agreed
Subsequently that he should remain
until the following morning In order
not to give the servants occasion to
suspect 4 scandal. Twas terribly sor-
erown began to AL him abdut&his In
tervtew with Aunt Enid ON thu SUBJ
ject but It wasta brief torture. for
uncle said At N that he had ex-
tracted a promise from her that she
would o or communicate In
any way with the captain again.
In spite of which promise she had,
on the very next morning, If Celeste'e
evidence were to be believed, received,
by Celeste's own hand, a note from
the captain. Possibly It might have
been argued in Aunt Ends favor that
she Was only a passive agent In thus
receiving the note. One of the ques-
tons which had been put to Celeste
was whether her mistress knew from
whom the note came. The French
girl had answered demurely that she
did not know and that there was no
address on the envelope, but counsel
probably reflected that no body Of
jurymen was likely to be so simple
as to be able to be persuaded that she
had not known.
~ watching the case" as It was
called. for him, but HI did very little
else than watch I suppose that
It was useless. from our point of
view, to contest that Captain Wharf
had been a favored lover, but I was
rather surprised that his counsel did
not eem to al to contest It.; but
when he put his client into the box.
then it became tolerably apparent
why he had thought it Of no use to do
%.
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 1t 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 coun-
gel put to him it was plain that he
had abandoned his line altogether.
Presumably he had been better ad-
vised in the interval, seeing how
strong the facts were against him.
1t was for this rcason because he
was prepared to make full admission
of the fact that he had visited Scot
ney hat evening, that Matilda Man
son was not more severely cross
questioned than she had been. Nor
was all the evidence in regard to the
motor car in which his visit had been
made at all disputed. lie even admit
ted, on being questioned, that the note
handed by Celeste to her mistress wae
in his writing, and that its purport
was to propose a meeting in the Sum
mer-house at nine o'clock on that
very Friday night.
Admitting * much, 1t wa scarcely
much use to him to attempt to deny
anything that Celeste had said, no
matter to what depth her vivid fancy
might have embroidered the actual
truth OF 1t, in respect to the meetings
and the intimacy between Aunt Enid
and himself. Further than this. how
ever, In the direction OF admission a
to the contents of the letter, he could
not be induced to go. Although coun-
sci for the prosecution S"suggested''
in that .insidious way that they have
that the letter had proposed elope-
ment. he quite declined to accept the
suggestion. He declared that the an-
gle motive Of his coming down had
been to 70 ono again the woman
whom he admitted that he loved, and
to ray farewell to her, as he had not
been able to say It before.
That, SO far. was his story. He
had motored down from London, hir-
Ing the car according to the evidence
given. turning It, just as the prosecu-
ton had supposed. at that point UNI
der the Scotney House trees where
their shadow II deepest. He HAD run
It q little too far backward into the
soft ground on the1side Of the road.
exactly az had been indicated by the
tire mark. and then, leaving the ear
in The shadow. with the lights turned
out. he had gone in ut the gate Of the
shrubbery path.
oh, yes, he admitted, he knew that
" was an Illegal thing to do to leave
the car In the road Ike that, with the
lights out. but It was VERY bright
moonlight, the car Was right at the
side OF the road. It was & road which
VA very little used At IN sventa.yand
the liability 81 its cauang IN accident