Indiana State Sentinel, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 March 1893 — Page 12

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DY JAMES H. XVI. ir.yt OPENS TIT CAMTAir.V. Dora Ilackt tt sat moodily upon his low bed la a litila cell of Sa Harbor jail. His elbows rested upon his knees, and his achiua brow was supported by his palms pressed against hia tunipleo. Ho miht, bad ha wiabed to do so, bare caught a glimpse of sunshine through tho narrow window high up in the wall; might Lato loon the green branches of tiio venerable tjloi that, swayed It tha wind, swept its foliage from time to lima acrofa that little -apace of sky ; might have heard the hiithe carols of the songbirds that llittud among tbe old trae'a boughs, and even perched and an if upon the atone window lede; but ha had no heart to look aoywherobut on tbe ((round, no thought for uuht but Iii owa misery tnd shame. It seemed tu hitn a terribl thing, that ho ahould bo hckod in a jail. Whnt would Mary aaf when the learned of it, as she inevitably must? Ah! She would not believe that bo could be guilty, certainly not; but tho f name of him would break her heart. Iii lila had hitherto butn oq singuhrly froe from reproach, and of tho many things to which even pasiatly sood men become accustomed and hardened, by eontai t with tha world, ha wai almost ao innocent a hia aweetheurt herself. He bad not gouo oil to a big city to ciako ids fortuno and fall into eril wavs. as tiio J-laethatnpton atoreaeeper had sui 1. Out cf the three years and some months aince he cjuittH'! the viilaje, he had incut, altogether, but a few weeks on there, lie lud been out at sea, duiog bravely and well the n.atdy work to which he had diKlicat-d hiiraolf, and from even the ruder and, to ome nature, demoralizing influences by which ho waa there aurrouuded, Le ha 1 t wn protected by the pur. .'virp china of hia "ver-faithftil lovo. A retrospective view i his whole li fa brought to hi memory no thought of re- j irret or ehaoie for atitcnt that he hid done, uo rt.-ine;nlrttico of cnytliititf he wcuid Lave wished to hide front the knowledge of her ha lovod best, and in whose rouard ho had :not desire to stand well. Dut there waa one thing that, were it to do over aain, be would not have repeated, tie would not have knocked down the. officer who came to erregt hi'n, nw he did in bit tirat natural heat o( indiirriation at h-arin? hinsell charged with being an assassin and a thief. No, he woulJ not do that over aj.iin, f r after he was ironed he hud heard men aar that he did it in a Oaspurate Lot. of escspo, and that ho would not have dona it if ho had not been gailty. And yet it reeniod to hitn tbo no-t natural thin? for an lnnoctut rnaa ta do under the circumstances. Could he havo I maiiiv 1 that such a conutructh ii would bu put up.ui it? And now what had ho t,i look forward to? He knew nothing, absolutely, of tho murder, of the inquest, or of the grounds wan which he was eunpc;tjd, pave that he had a vague rei'.ierabranre of hearing it raid, ati:i J the excitement attendant upon bi arrest, that he had b:on in tha vicinity of where Mr. Van Deust hps murdered on the night that the old man was killed. "Yes, that wns probably true; and hosv could he ptovo, or even state, the innocent purpose of his presence th're? Could ho ask Mary to come into court ana teatii'y to their love meeting in tbe woods? .No. Not even to save hia life. Hia rtticcticiis were broken by the sound of footsteps in the corridor without, and the sound of the jailer's voice saying.: "This ia hia cell." The prisoner looked tip and mot the frank, kindly face and outstretched hand of Lern l'awlett. "Well, Horn, old fellow, I'm mightily sorry to see you here," he pai l cordially, as the jailer walked awry, leaving him standing in front of tho grated iron door of tbe cell, through which hi hand waa thrust to jrr is p that of Mary's lover. "Doea do they know of it?" stammered Porn. "Does Mary, you mean. We'd, yea, I puvsa Ehe does. I'ncle Thatcher was at the Ptore lat niuht when tbe mail-rid r brought the news, and ho hai most proliably mentioned it r.t home. Hut, Lord blea you, man! alio don't think anything of it. Cheer up. Don't sot down in the mouth. She won't believe a word aaiust you. you may be pure. And it don't come oa her like a nhock, a it were, becauso she has been expecting it." "Mia expected it?" "Yes. She has known for two or three day that thy were after you, but had uo way of getting any word to you." But how did they come to be after me?" "That was Aunt Thatcher's doinzs, I believe; but I'll ivll you all about it, as f&r aa I know." Thereupon the pood fellow proceeded to (rive aa full and correct an account, as hi information enable J, of thu facta a'reaJy better known to the reader, beeinniughis narrative with the dircovery of the murder and concluding it with an expression of hia determination of the nijtnt before, to "try to straighten out the tangle." iod bleea you, o d fellox," responded Dorn, with teura of gratitude iu his eye. "I can't tell you how it warms ray heart to have one friend stand by me in a time like tbia. But little did' I ever think, when we were bova p aring together, that you would ever havo to do euch a thinglor me." That's all rijrht. Dorn. I'on't aar anything more about It. I'll be glad if I can do anything, and so will Kutii nnd Mary. And now, let'a lee what ia to be done. The first thing is for you to tell me, as clearly and exactly as you can. every incident vou can remember of where you were and what you did that night." "Everything is aa clear ia my mind as IJ occcrrencea of yesterday. Ltt me bepii at the beginning. 1 reached New JIaven in the forenoon of that day, and, having made a much quicker voyago than was expected, found that I would have several days at my disposal. Of course my first thought was of going toeo Marv. I left tbe arhooner in charge of thn mate, to see to the taking out of her cart" wbd 1 was gone, and got a roan named llollis to bring rue over to Napenue in a little fishing smack, l.'ehad to come, any way, to get a couple of pipes of run that had rolled oft a traJnr'a deck one obt. I left him at the beach, telling him that if 1 did not meet him there at '.)::) o'clock that evening he need not wait tor me, aa I might have to remain over a day, or even two; for you know, as Mary would not be expectiig me, I did cot know whether J ahould meet ber at the usual place that evening, or not, snd 1 couldn't go to her unclo'a to ae her." "No. I know all about that." "Well. I waa fortunate enough to meet bar, walking with Uutb, and naturally remained with her aa lor as I could. It was 9 o'clock, as noar as J could jndge by the rise of the moon, when wo parted, and 1 sat out for tbe head to nict Hoi hp. I was a little afraid of being lit, and took a short cut through the woods that I tboujrhtl knew jut aa wall as when we Uied to go buckleberryiug in theiu when

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CONNELLY. wo were bov, Hut thore had teen at least one change that I knew nothing of a' now road." "Ah, yes. The r.aw ono across from Aina'aiiv.'tt." "I auppuati ao. Whatever it Ia, I found it very euddonly. I was running at the time, along a little path that I knew well, und all at once wem plunging down, head forornoat, nine or ten feet into a cut. It's a wonder and, as I then thought, a mer cy that I didn't bruak my neck. Lately I've had my doubts na to whether it wouldn't havo been butter for me if I baJ." 'tow that, and pay out your yarn." 'When I could collect my scattered eensea I found that I had cut two ugly gushes in my Lead, upon aharp pointed roots or atube of some sort, und had sprained my left anklo so that it was exceedingly painful or me to attempt lo walk. While 1 e.t there, thinking- what I bhould do, a little elderly gentleman, on horpehack, came along upon tha new road into wpictt I had fallen. I told him I waa hurt, and he very kindly agisted me, first to fix up my ad, giving me his handkerchief to uio with my own for the purpose, and then to get over to the beach, llollis wa gone. The accident had delayed mo hir beyond my time, and he, of conme, putipoeed that I was not coming. When I got my anklo ia tho cool sea-water it fdt better, but tili 1 could not walk any disUnco on it. Jut thru a hiikII pir.ack came a'ong, with an old man and n boy in it tran'Ta to mo probably out on some smuggling errand, and lowered the old umn 10 to tako mo over to New Haven, which ho accepted gladly. The kind little cenllcmau helped mw into the hont and bade me good-nuht, having that ho had yet to ride to bag Harbor. We had very little wind, and it waa duyoght when the old man lnnl,;d ma in Now Häven. I had lost a good deal of Hood from the cula on my head, nnd felt half tick aud diowpy from it, mj that I elept nearly all tbe time I wus in the boat. And that's ail I can tell you about that night." "Well, man live, that'e) enough. All we've K"t to do is to find tbe little jrentloman and the old man to prove that you lelt the ilsd before 11 o'clock, for it was after that hour tuat Jacob Van Delist was murdered. That will show clearly enough that whoever did kill him, at all eveuta, you didn't; und that's all wo euro about ju3t at prepent." "Ah! If I had the allghtest idoa of who they wore. Hut I never thought to ak their names, and indeed didn't take much notice of anything; for, aa I id, I was d:z.y, and half eicn, and drowsy, with the lo.".s of blood; ho that even if they had toid me who they were I don't know that I ehoul 1 have been ablo to remember. If the old man wi'..s, as I suppose, a Ptnup.r, he would hardly be liken y to willingly oxpoae hi:nelf to inconvenient questioning iu court. Uld men uro cautious about taing such dunces, especially for people who are nothing to them." "Can you give me a description of the little gentleman ( n horseback? or tell me anything about him that might lead to his identification?" "No. Unly 1 remember ho paid ho was a etrau2:r, and know nobody in tho neighborhood excont the Vim Denis Id. The way he came to mention that waa in talking of taking ine somewhere." "Weil, as ho mentioned tho Van Deists old lVter doubtlxa kuowe who he U. Ahl Come to thiuk about it, he paid nt the intjuest that his lawyer from New York had called on him that evening. Why, it's all plaia pniiiin now. I'll go to the old mun right uway and iiok hin:, and he'll tell mo who his lawyer Id, and I'll go and nee him, and we'll havo you out in a ji.'I.r." "LtLi, I can't toil you how 1 appreciate your kindness and the trouble you are taking ia lay behalf." "Don t try to. It's all right, I tell you. lou'ddo tbo pame for ioh; I know you would. And 1 rather think I be-'m to hko the job, knowing how it w;U npito that old cu.-o, Deacon Harkins." The remainder of tho young men's chat at the cell door had r.o ucp c:;il aigaiticanco or bearing upon the progress of the evonts of our etory, und muv aa wo 1, therofore.be omitted. u!lico"ii to .ty, that when they aeparati'd Dorn felt infinitely mora Loreful and cheerful than ho had before eine- hia arret, and l.mn had far preator confidenc in the result of hisnov9l undertaking ot detective w.rk. Of courso hern curriod away with him uiany loving n.eHHieos to .Vlary, which were, in due tiruo, faithfully delivernd through i.utu. It was late that evening whon tbo young man reached bis home for him to call upon l'eter Van Deust, but he went up to the homesteu 1 under the elms the next morninjr, at as early an hour as l.o dred hopoJ to lind nay body adir. Ib found the lonely old man, already seated upon tne long beucrt m tho porch, in hia secuctoiued place, with his pipe in his mouth and his paze turned toward tho ea; but the pipe had gone out unnoticed, and the eyes saw nothing of tbe glory of the dawn upon tbo ocean, for they were blindea by tears that unconaciou.-ly lil.ed them. Letn stood silently looking at him for fiomo moment?, hesitating to ppuak, nnd hoping to be noticed; but the oil man did not peem to know that h was not alone, until I.em's voice, bidding hiui "Good morning," awoko him with a start from his reverie. Then the atart, with which he had been recalled, extended itauif in a long fit of nervous trembling, und it was with a weak and quavnring voice that he refponded to hia visitor's palntaticn. It was painful toseo how tho unhapuy man had broken down in tho lilt o time that had passed since the death of his brother. It seemed to have added at lent teu years to bis age. "I puppose, Mr. Van Deust. that you have heard of Dorn Hacketfs arrest," began the young man, after a failure to Cad any ether way than a direct plr.n-o to arrive at bis subject. "Yee. yet-, 1 was told of it yesterdav. Dorn Haekelt? Dorn Hackett? They say he uped to live around here, but I don't remember him. 1 suppose I uped to know him. though. And he wa raided in the neighborhood? It seems strange that any one who was rai-ed near him, and knew him, could ever havo had the heart to kill Jacob, don't it?" "liut, Mr. Van Deust, maybe he didn't do it at all." ".Somebody did it; somebody climbed into hia window and murdered him for the take of a little money. J teat in his ekull and cut short his little remnant of life, jmt to get a few dollars. Uh ! it woa a cruel thinsr to do, to kill that poor, harmless, pentb, good old man. 1 wish, we had never heard of lht curbed fortune. Jacob would bu alive today if we hadn't." His agitation, while he spoke was extreme. He trembled like a leaf in the wind; tears ran down his withered cheeks; his voice was broken by sobs, nnd at length Ins emotion no obstructed his utterance that Lem could not understand him as he went rambling on about his brother' untimelv end. After, a little time, during which Deui pik-nlly waited for him to regain a littlo calm, his mood roamed to change to one of suspicion and fear for himeelf. "I suppose they'll come to kill me next," he exelaimed. -They'll think there's more money, but there isn't

there isn't a dollar in the house. I'll !

never havo a dollar in the house again, and I'll get a dog, a savage big dog, und I'll load tbe gnu. Oh, I've got a gun, though it hasn't been loaded in forty vears." "Mr. Van Deust, a little elderly gentlemon on horsoback was in this neighborhood tbe niiht your brother waa murdared, and he said ho knew you. Who was he?" "Why, he's my lawyer, the man who brought us tho intelligence of ' Due what do you want to know for? What right have you to come here asking we questions about my private a flairs about my lawyer? Do you think he brings money here? No, he don't! he don't I There isn't a dollar In the house. It's none ot your business! Go awav fron her. I wen't answer any more of your questions. I was a fool to tell you no much! Itegone! begone! lietsy! Ilotsyl Help! help!" The old man's excitement seemed to have crazed him, temporarily, at toast. He ccntinuod raving, and Lern, finding it lmposib'e to get in a word of explanstion, wont awn-, no little disgurtted with the rebuff" he had encountered at tho very commencement of his tadc of hunting up an alibi for Dorn. Keturntnt; to iaj Harbor, he pucceeded in finding tbe man who had hired a horstt to the little elderly gentleviv. on several occasions, but could learn nothing from film beyond that fart. Die gentleman, according to tho man's etatement, always arrived by boat from Now York, got the horso, rode away, came back, raid, and disappeared, probably by boat again. And that was. all that, the owner of tho horen knew about him. Then Lern went to New York, aayintr to liluiHolf that he ''would rwk every littlo idderly lawyer in New York if he was the man," before he would give tin tbe pursuit. Littlo did the unsophisticated young fellow, who had never beforo baen away from home, imagine the magnitude of the job he had cut out for himself. XVII. J.OVF. THAT IS NOT ASHAMED. The closing of the inquest upon the boily of Jacob Van Deust was a mere formality. It was generally understood that theru was within reach, if not in ao tual possession, pome evidenco that would go far to connect Dorn ilackett with the crime, and Squire Ik Jley oven hintod as much in a few remarks that tie made to the jury; but it was deemed injudicious to make it known at this juncture, and tho jury, by the equire'i direction, returned a verdict of "death by violence at tbo hands of 6ome person unknown." .Mary Wallac. ignorant of the slow, serpentine and deadly ways of tho thing men nmuao themselves by calling "justice," whon the iinding of tho jury was told to her that night found it difficult to understand why Dora should bo kept la jail, when there eemed to be no evidence which the coroner's jury has found sutucient to connect him with tbo crime. "Uncle," said she, timidly approaching grim Mr. Thatcher, as ho sat on the stone door-step, aurroundad by a litter of fine shavinxa that he had scraped from a whale-lance handle that he waa finishing by the la-t light of day, "why ia it that, if tbe jury gave their verdict that tho murder woh done by fcorna unknown pernoa, they don't lot Jlr. Hackott out of jail?" "Did you oversee a cat playing with a live mouBO that ehe had caught?" "Yea, uncle." "How she lets it po a little way olT, malting it think it is going to oncape, and then potincea on it oaiu ? How Phe pretends he iaa't paying any attention to it, and has no notion of hurting it, and then suddenly tears it to pieces?" "Ye, uncle," repeated Mary with a shudder. "Well, that's the way the law does with a man." Mary coyerod hor face with her handj and wrt softly, while be wout on: "Htheyatill hold on to Dorn Hacke t it is because they hope to get proof enough against hitn to make him out guilty. I have hward lawyers say that tbe law prep umea every man to 1j innocent until he is proved guilty; and when I was a younger man I actually believed that, but aa 1 have got older I havo learned that t-iaciicaily, ia the administration of tbe law, witen a crime is committed somebody ha got to tmder for it, for the enko of the moral cfisct on tho community, and it don't really inako much difference who it in, eo long m the poor devil who is caught cannot prove himself Innocent, which is sometimes a mighty bard thing, to do. lie may not be k-uilty. but they will try to mako him out so. Detter hang him than admit having uicdo a blundsr in his arreat." "Oh, but uncle! you don't believe Dorn could be guilty, do you 7" He looked at her pale auxio:s ftieo with r feeling of deep pity, for bis eyes were k ioii enough to see "that it was of her lover she spoke, and replied with unwonted tenderness: "No. niv poor child. No, I don't; and 1 wouldn't if I knew nothing more about him than your trust in him." Two low sounds mingled softly, and were doubtless duly noted by the recording angel on duty: a eign from Uncle Ihateher and a eniir of disgust from his loan and rancorous wife in the dark room behind him. He sighed to think, as he looked at Marv, anil appreciated the worth of her full and perfect love, what a treasure his profligate son had lost in her, among all thecood he had recklessly enst from him. Aunt Thatcher sniifed because she did not dare to express openly her contempt for his weeknesa in manifesting svmpathv for the poor orphan who had won her hearty and unextinguishablo hatred by rejection of Mlas' advances. "And if Dorn cannot, as you say it is difficult to do, prove himself innocent, what will they do witn him?'' "They'll hang him." exclaimed Aunt Thatcher, in a tone of malicious triumph, unable longer to contain herself, nnd now nupeariug in tbo door to enjoy Mary's horror. Tnclo Thatcher turned upon her with a look of disgust and retorted: ''aliie Thatcher, if the devil himself ain't ashamed of you, he's meaner than I tako him for." "Oh, indeed! I'mpobad.aml? Thank you, .Mr. Thatcher. Juit because I don't choose to take up for a murderer end a thief. I'm auro anybody might have known what ho'd come to when he commenced by nearly killing my poor boy." "Your 'poor boy' deserved all he got, and more, too; and I've good reasons of mv own for thinking that we'll both see tho day we'll have to regret that Dorn Hackett didn't finish him then." Aunt Thatcher's surprUo and rage at hearing thone words deprived her for a moment of the power of articulation, and she cou'd only give vent to her feel intra byasortwitd beast howl of fury. But very eoon her ready tomrue loosened Itnolf again, and alto poured forth a torrent of reproach, vituperaticu, an dnialediction directed at random against her husband, aaiutt Mary, against Dorn, againet the world, indeed, excepting only her "poor injured bov." When Uncle Thatcher had Lad enough of this, tie straightened himself up before her. and she. as if fearing the weiabt of his heavy band, retreated into the dark room, l uthedid not scorn to have any intention of personal violence. He simply pulled the door to, locked it on the outaide, and sat down again. A moment aftorward the door was tried and rattled from the inside. "Stay in there and keep quiet. If you

know what's good for you," growled Uncle Thatcher. The rattling ceased and all was again quiet. "Uncle?" aaid Mary after a little pause. "1 want to go and sea Dorn." "In jail?" "Yes." "Well," he replied a littlo doubtfully, "people might talk." "Let them if they will, I don't career, at least, I doa't'eare enough to preveat my going to hitn when he is in trouble What ran they say, but tint we aro lovers. Well, yes, we are and it ia no timo for mo to scok to bido it when others look coldly and cruelly on him. lie loves me I know he does and I love him with all my heart. And wo are going to be married very soon, uncle. I would Lave told you before, bot I was afrnid. Now, yob aro ao kind to me that I'm not afraid to tall you anv more. And oh. uncle, I must go to him I" "Forgive me, little Mary and may God forgive me for having mado poor Lottie's orphan child afraid to put confidence in me. You say you want to go and aee him. You shall. I'll I.Tchup arly tomorrow morning and take you over to ag Harbor myseif." I-ong beforo daylight the next morning Mary, who had not dosed her eyes during thoBeomingly interminable night, was up aud had breakfast prepared. Whether Aunt Thatcher was ptdl under the inlluetico of tbe sullen fury that possessed ber when the door was closed upon her the night before, or had frah fuel added to the firo of hor temper by overhearing tho arrangement between her husband and niece, did not tpnr. At all eveuta ehe ipoko no word of question or remark, and was still abed whon they took their departure. The sun was not risen above the oa when Uncle Thatcher's old carryall creaked through the one long rarubiintr stroet of the little village and entered upon the bnj?, Harbor road; but his upward alintinff boams already spread with gold and crimson the lower edtrea of tho fleecy clouds on the eastern horizon. Diamonds of dew still clung to a tbe long grass blades, and tho points of the forost leaves and the morning breeze, heavy with tho suit smell of the sea, was fresh and bracing. Kobbins flitted across the road with sharp notes, as of query why folks should be abroad so early, and a belated rabbit, homeward bound to his burrow in the brush, sat upr.-ared upon hia hauncea and seemed paralyzed by astonishment until tho horses were almost upon him, when

he bounded stviitly away. Higher and higher ro.se the sun, and as his ordent raya licked up the dew, light c.ouds of yellowduit swirled and spread behind the rapidly moving wheels.. 1'ast orchards, whero red winter apples glowed in the tunstihe liko balls cf blood amid the folinge of the trees; past Holds slid golden with the etubhlo of the early ripenod grain ; past fallow lands, where tbe bluebird carroled gayly on tho hollow stump in. which he aud his mate had reared their ppringtime brood ;'past leafy woods, where nuts were ripening, the wheels robed fatt until they reached the quaint old town their journey's end and halted beoeath tbe old-time tavorn's vonerablo elms. Leaving the horses bitched, after having carefully watered them, Uncle Thatcher accompanied his niece to the jail and asked permission to see Dorn ilackett, which the jailer, hiving no orders to the contrary, readily accorded. Mr. Thatcher did not enter. Though far from being a nervous man, he feit as if the clou clammy atmocphere of that atone warehouse of sin r-.nd sorrow sent a chill to bis heart. Desides be had no business with Dorn Ilackett. With a great breath of rolief he turned hit back upon tha jail and wandered olf down to the wharf to look at the shipping -for Sag Harbor had shipping in those days to learn if there w as any change in tiie oil and whalebone markets, and perhaps to ascertain what was coming to his share of that achoouvr in which he was part owner. Dorn was jtiPt bidding adieu to hia lawyer when Mary appeared in the corridor. ' "Jty Jove! Here's a pretty girl coming to see some prisoner!" exclaimed the lawyer at sight of her. Dorn paid no attention to the remark. There was but ono pretty girl in the world about whom he cared to think, and he did not expect her to come thcro. What then was hia Purtripe when the lawyer stepped aside to givo place to tbe visitor at bis cell door ho looked out and beheld the beautiful face of his own true love, Marv. With a cry of purprise and joy he thrust his arms through between the bars, catching hor in an embrace, and their lips mot in a long and ardent kiss. The lawyer, who was a young man, aud posnesned of a very lively appreciation of feminine beauty, lingered a few moments and then took his departure. "1 hardly know whether I am moi't glad or ashamed to seo you here, darling," said Dorn, locking tendorly at hia beloved. "Glad, I hope, dearest. Should you feel ashamed of being unfortunate? It is oniy guilt of which one need be ashamod, and that, I well know, my dear Dorn has no t." "True. Hut it is very hard to wash the prison taint off, even from an innocent man." "Do not think eo, my love, livery ona will know how true and good you are, and will hu ad the kinder to you for tbe mistake 'hat bai given us eo much pain and trouble." "Ah, my dear girl, it Is your love and not your reason that tells me so. Kven people who have no other reason for hating the man who has been the victim of such a mistake, will find euthcient the consciousness that they havo erred in supposing? him guilty, and will always profps to view him witn suspicion, whether they feel it or not. There is nothing that people eenerully abhor so much us a confestuon of fallibility. Hut, no matter. I have your lovo and confidence, dear Mary ; I'm euro I have, or you would not be here ; ami for ad beyond that I'd aek small odds from the world if I were free aain." "And you will be, dearest, I am suro of it. It can never be possible t'jat a man should be punished by law tor, that of which he is not guilty." "Ah, you think so? Then you have not read much about people who have been convicted upon circumstantial evidence. I have read a whole book about such cases, and 1 tell you it takes very little real proof to hang a man sometimes. . "Oh, Dorn 1 Don't talk sol You mtko tne wild with horror and fesr!" "Well, thero there darling. I won't say any more about it. I shouldn't have said eo much, but eomehow I have got into a bad way of talking back pince I have had to make tbe acquaintance of a lawyer." And kissing her tenderly, he sought to remove the terror that he had unthinkingly given her, making light even of what Le had just paid, and forcing himself to speak much more hopefully than ho dared to feel. "I.em, you know," he said, "has gone to Nw York to find a witness who will certainly clear me if we can bring him Into court." "Kuth told me that be had gone, and tho object of his going, as far as she knew, but he did net give her anv particulars." "No? Then I'll tail you all about it." Thereupon he proceeded to inform ber of all tho untoward events that had happened to him after hia leaving ber on the last night they wero together; Lis running through the woods and falling into the new road ; the aid given him by the little elderly gentleman; the tnissin? I o.', the boat he had hoped to catch; the i opportune arrival of tbe old man. prob

ably a smugger, etc, etc., jut as bus al- j

ready been narrated ta lis interview wtui l ern, but much more tdowlv, as this timo the story was much broken by affectionate condolence and consequent digrta.dons to love makini'. He told ber abo of I.em's unsuccessful attempt to learn from l'eter Van Deiitit who tho little gentleman was. "What a pity it Is," eho said, "that you did not think to ahk him bis namo! Was tLero nothing about him that you can rotnembor that might help to hi identification no pcr-onal peculiarity of look, or dress, or manner of Bpeoch?" Ho shook his Iiead reirretfuliy, saying: "I wsi ncd much in tho humor to notice peculiarities just then. Hut yes. come to thick about it, there was ono little incident that rattier amused me at tbo time, badly as I felt; but 1 have not thought of it since mitil now. The little gentleman had a very alow, cautious and prc.o way of speaking. I usked him what timo it was when we were dowu at tbo beach. Ho pulled out bis watch and repbod very deliberately: 'Without desiring to bo understood aa committing myself to fin affirmation of thti nhaoluto accuracy of my timepiece, I m ty civ that, to the best of my information and belief, it is now eleven minutes pawi lü o'clock.'" "Ah, I have eeen hitn! I recognize hie phase, 'iufonru.tion and belief!'" ixclaimed .Mary, "and I know juat how he aaid" if. liuth and I n et him !tix firtt time he cam into tbo ne.ghborhcod, looking for the Van Deusts. 'kuppoiud to be brothers' na he then said, liuth imitates him, eometiniA, und does it very well. When wo como lo match together our remembrances of him, 1 am sure we will be abl to givo bum Honi'j information that will hoip him to lind the man." "I certainly hope vou may," answered Dorn, "for I can do nothing more. 1 have got to resign mvte f play the passive part of a football for other people to bounce about, without being ublo to help lnvsO'f, whether 1 am going into tho goal or the ditch. 1 havn h lawyor, but lis seems to look rather blue over the prospect." "Then get another." "Ami have two of them looking blue? No, no. 1 hat wo aid bo more than 1 could stand. One is en uirh. Sailors don't tako very kindly to lawyers, any way, you know." At the end of an hour a very shorttime as it oeetned to them, but tbe limit set bv tbe jailer, who now appeared looking in at the corridor door from timo to time, with an Kir of expert lionMary aaid rdie would have to be go ing. "flow did you coma over?" nuked Dorn. "t ncle Thatcher brought me." "The mischief Ii, did! And did ha known vou were comirglo ho me?' "Yes lie brought mo for the purpose. Oh, .Dorn, bo bus turned to be ever to kind rnl good to me 1 1 told him I loved you "(Jod bless vou, mv darling!" ex c'aimed her lover, iutarrapting hor with a kiss. " an i that we were coiner to bo mar ried. Ai.d 1 did not pnv ono word pgtiast it. Uo even said that he di not b&Iisvo you were guilty; nnd whon I tol 1 h tm I wanted to come and tee vou, he ans wexod that b would hitch up early this n tor nir.g aud bring rno; and eo ho did." "Mary, if i'.'ve over Faid a word against L nele 1 hate her 1 want to tuke it n I bark A mun who does mo na good a turn as ho has this day, 1 cun never after bold any grudge against. Marv went home that night with much lighter boar', and looked so nearly happy that AuGt Thatcher would liked to havo bitten lu;r for eheer vexation and epito. XVIII. WRN'h ri-HKIhl.i; .MISTAKE. Dorn Ilßcketi's preliminary examine tlon by a committing im pitrato took placo before Hijuiro Dodiey, and whs even a moro important cvei.t for all the conn try around t'na'i tbe iuquept ha been. As upon tbe former occa .a a a . . ,. sion. tue 'iiiiroe nttio ohice was crowded densely, i nd apparently bv exactly the same persons who filled i then with the exception that tbo s nail ppace within; the railing wr.s oomewhat more jamoied by the addition of five more persons than thcrawere at the timo of the inquest; the icnr; his iawer,Mr.Dunn the prosecuting attorney; tho ofliccr who brought Dorn from Sag Hnrbor ie.il. and a reporter from Nw York. l'eter Van Deust was soatod were lie nabofore, look luir lesriuiiv worn arm old, aswat remark ed by all who knew hitn and viewd with surpriße tho great changed that had been wrought in him within the few weeks aince hie brother e murder. Ilu lioil iixird command over himself row, however, than tie showed on the brat day of the in nuept; and instead ot bowing bis bea and weeping, leaned upon tbo end of the table and fixe ! bis vcs with n hungrily keen gaze upon the witnesses and tho priu oner, as be would fain havo p jcotratud their hearts to know t:ie truth. Lern l'awlett was called, but did not M apnnd, aud in bin aba-nco another witness formally testified as to the fac: cf the dis cove ry of the murder, l'eter Van Doust repeated Ida former tosltmouv. lhen the prot-ecu ting-attorney called tbo name of Marv Wallace. "Stop a moment," interposed tho prison pre couneel. 1 desire to k&ow the ouiee of the prosecution iu cabins this witness." Tt ia neither ciibtomarv nor requtaite. resp onded the proeecutor, "for tho otate to uive fluch information. At the same time I haw no objection, under the existing cireunu tsiioes, to inform the counsel that wointtnd to prove by this w;tnena that tbe pris.K'Gf waa iu tbe vicinity cl where thi murdr was perpetrated upon tbe tlight of its perpetration; keeping himeelf in the wood v, evading the tiu'ht uf former friends and ieUhbore, though he had not revisited thewi or made himself known mnm them lor tbreo years or moro and that ha vrtd from the person we have jupt caileJ ns a witnesa a little wh o bffore the -curat wuicn wie mur der, as we havo reason to be love, was committed. "We are ready to admit," replied Mr Dunn, "that tho prisoner was in the woods within a half. .'r possioiy n quar t of a mile of the Van Deust home tPd on the nicht of the murder; th tor what seemed to him .Tood and stilli cient reasons, yet very innocent ones which tbo younger portion ot my hearers will possibly imagine, and appra ciato moro readllv than tbe old onus he did peek to void meetimr anv iuouisitivw Kr' sluing friends; and that ho parts d from the person whom tho träte ba jnst called before the hour at which the murder was committed. I believe those admissions covered all tho state do eiros to show by this witness, and cans nuently I do not tee there can be any necessity, at this time, for placing her on the stand." "Nona at all. We sro satisfied with the admisniona," assented the prosecutor cheerfully, not at all dissatisfied with expediting business in the closo and heated quarters in which he found himself. A look of relief, a'rnost of pleasure, passed over Dorn's lace, lie had his Mary spared the embarrassment and unhappmces of appearing as u witness egaiuat him, for that time at lea t. A man named Schooly from New Haven testified that he saw Dorn in bis boarding bouse in that city two days alter the date of the murder, and be was then sullering

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IU ll Arlir, lilJncv Pnln, Bill Wi nkrM, Fo.-rnr , f.ai.i m r, li'.r.s, nnd Paln r ller'd In one nilmtty ly tlic I iillcur. stntl-l'pln i'iaPier. tiio cri'y paia Ltllim; aircnftfienla,; ;!.u'er. from some cuts, bruises and sprains which he claimed to have received while running through the Long I. land woods ot night. Detective Turner bore witness to tbo finding in tbe prisoner' room in New Haven of a pair ot pantai oua and iackflt stained with blood, nnd a phirt which, though it had been waa bed. still bore blood Htnin. Ho farther narrated that the prisoner had stoutly repisted arrest; had, indeed, foutrht hard to elloct au eseape, and upon being overcomeand pearched, bad be n found to have, in belt about his body, poiiV t- oO in gold Coins which tho witness here produced for inspection by the magistrate, and possible identification by -Mr. l'eter Vau Deust The old man looked them over a little. and then punned them away with a weary id, saving simply : "Jacob had gold in Ms bsg;Idont know how much. Minted coins are all uliKe." The cast? looked very weak for tbo prosecution. Thero wa really nothing beyond mere eustdeion to connect the prisoner with tho crimo. Tbe pro-ocdting attorney, wilh a discontented look, whispered to the detective who was evidently uneasy and phuUled over agiin tho pagoi of the testimony taken at tho inquest, with a faint hope that he might find there some previous y overlooked duo to bo of eervico now. Hut thero wus nothing. The prisoner's counsel leaned back to his client and whispered cxultnn'.Iv: "I defy any jury or magis'rat to lind on that evidence ativtbiug worp than tbe Scotch verdict of 'Xot proven.' " "Not proven?"' exclaimed Dorn, "I don't want mich a verdict as that. CnBt a cloud cf suspicion and doubt over my whole life! No, I'd rather be. han?ed at onooand done with it. What I demand ia I a verdict of 'Not guilty.' " "Hotter be satisfied with what you can get. 'Not proven' would be just aa good." "Not for me. I want to tell the squire and evervbody just what happened to me tbatniht. 1 am euro that they will so I am tilling the truth, and I'll clear away this euspicion." An older and shrowder practitioner than Mr. Dunn would have positively refused to permit his cdent to imperil, by a word, the present promising condition of bis case; but ho could not help entering into the foc.iug of the brave, handsome and carne.it young fellow who pleaded so hard to be permitted to dofund himself with the truth, and yielded. "If your honor plcapcs," ho said aimply, "my client requests to be permitted t mako bis owu statement of tbe events of tbe nibt in question ejecting him. or in which he had a pert." "I shall be happy to hear him," answered Squire liodl.". who was conscious of feeling prepi'iaesaad in Dorn's favor, and desirous of seeing him clear biuipo'.f from suspicion. The prosccutiug attorney looked up with a new light of hope in his eyes. Well he knew how even innocent persous sometimes tangle themelveH up in trying to tell a straight slory, and how their tinpracticed nnd unguarded utterances can he garbled, warped and misconstrued. I'.tit Dorn's manner gave him very little encouragement. In a plain, straigh t-for-ward way, that went home with the fort e of truth lo tbo heart of all who hoard him, tho youog man told his brief tale of uial-ad venture on that luckles.s night. Why be bad como to Long Island that oveniug and tried to avoid being seen by anybody but tbe person ho came to see, was, be said, his own business bad no bearing on this affair and he d.'d not propose to make any piatement about that. JIo did not neod to. Already it had in some way become matter of public knowledge all over that end of lxng Inland that be had como to see Mary Wallace, his sweetheart, who pluck to him so well in his trouble that htie had been to see him in jail. And nobody thought tbe worse of him for that, certainly. Having disposed of that matter eo pitaply, he retold his story, from tho time of his smarting to run through the woods to catch Mr. Hoilis' sloop up to his final arrival at his home in Now Haven the next morning. "Deeply 1 regret," he said, in concluding the narrative, "that I do not know tho two persons who assisted me; the gentleman on horseback and the o d man in the smack; and beyond measure grateful I would bo to them if they, learning of tbe trouble into which I have innocently falien, would come forward to corroborate my statement of what happened that night." "And you know of absolutely nothine," said the prosecuting attorney, after a litt.'e whispering with old l'eter Van Deust, who was pecn to violently ehake her head, "which luigLt lead to the discovery of the real existence of either cf thoBe persons who. according to your very romantics f.torv, cftitio so opportunely to givo you their aid ?'' He spoke with an aflectation of incredulity, which in hia heart ho was very far from fee.ing. "Nothing whatever, sir," replied Dorn "Tbe only trace I havo left of either of them, except the memory of their kindness to me, is the handkerchief which the little gentleman bound around my head. It has been washed, with the rest of my clothing over which the blood llowod from my scalp wounds, and was sent to me ye3torday in tho valise which wss forwarded to me from my boarding houne in New Ilaven. I have it with me. Here it is." So paying he drew from one of his pocketa a larro white linen handkerchief, clean ncd neatly folded, which he handed to tbo propceutingattornor. That official took it in on absent-minded way, lookodat it negligently, and his mind busy with some trap be was minded to set for tti young man then todsed tbo light fabric cs.rSe.sply from him upon the table. It fell befor old l'eter Van Deust. who enntched it up and, after turning it from one co nr to another for c o-e examination, euddenly etarttled everybody by a loud cry and tbe exclamations: -It was his! It was Jacob's! I can awear to it!" The old man was immediately recalled to the witness-stand and testified wilh mt'ft h demonstration of excitement: i flt that it was hia aa soon as I paw it an' when I examined it I was sure of it! Ja.'b had some harmless womanish waya ai. ut Lim. Ha ould sew. and knit. And emlrv dder a little. . He marked all hia clothiDg Hnell every article of it I believe in A vry modest w ay; hardly discernible at a a-aeual glance, but very plain when you coma' to look for it, as you can see on that hnuvikercbief. .Look in that

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corner and you'll aee his initial, J. V. D.,' worked with a :iuli whiio thread. Yod can hardly eeo it without you Lol l it so that the light will show the lines of the letters Ivi'tg across tbe threads of tho fabric. " Ihcro! That wav it shows pl.inlv." It was as he said. Ths lotters "J. VD." wer unquestionably there. Dorn pauk back in bis at aghast anfl terriiiod bv this astouiehing liscotery. Who now t eli.ev! hi story ot the litt.o gentleman and tho old man in the smack? Nobody. Uvetvbody paw that it was 'n artfa ly cor.eca-ted lm. and win indignant with um for liuj ii g- them, bv his apparency ingeniio; nnd bem st manner, into momentarily btiioving him. An nudibla murmur shout tho "finder of Providence" rau thro uh the throng, and Mr. Dunn gro&r.rid, halt to himtcU a:d half to Lie ilipfit: "Oil, 1 was efratd youM plav the devil somehow ! Whv co.i.dn'i you .Save let wcL enough slon ?" Squire H ,d'ov, having carefully exs'r. ine t for himW th u r.rked handkerchief, said solemnly to tho ft.Tt.se 1: "Young mun, you have. Ifeir, plicod tho nooae about yt-ur o.vti neck Ytui wil.' stund comuiiltud to await tbo action ot ti grand jurv. Without baii, of courso, 1.4 added, pe-mg- that the prisoner' coun pm I b l rineu and swumed about to eaf po.n thing. Whatever it wm th;'.t Mr. Dunn lis 1 an id. a of pavint or doin when be got up in bis f et. be clianpcd a'n nnnd and en I iloii again. 'Jhe fact .ras tha. h waa si comp?. t'd v ptunn-d a- va hi" client Lt the rv dat. on that had been n;ale. lorn lisd sw un 1 1 him that bo was innocent, and ho i ad bviieved it. i'utliow ? Ha, ;Vn bt'gt U to h:lVt bis d'Hlblrt. At tlih momenta c;nrdenii:red woman, wrarii k a bonnet nnd with a tangb d Jock o puiuly hair huMgiiijr do n bei back, bavin g" literally fofut li-r wsy to tbo railing, .Vaned over it and asked tha taug strnto in r.n acidulous whi-per: "Squire, r:.i't 1 swear to botnetbin a'fiinsl him V" It would b I'eless now, Mr. Thatchir," replied the it )uir ' an he fine i'drti dv been comrnilicA Dul your ovi ier;c mL'ht ba desirod L, the prun 1 jury. Whai can you teftifv to? ' 'T can swear." Answered th tioTan, with earer ppitj, "ihat iu-'s n hardened"; vidain, aud that I bei lovo lie killed .lake., Van Deust. and that he'ri I", en keepina that fool tii '-e of mine out in the woods to thi lütk-et end most incVccnt hours of tbo night." "Miidam," said the fijuirt. wit't mingled digt.itr n I conti imt, "you will exrt0 mv sny;i:g ti nt v(u are simply disgusting ! tioawcy!". id COVflVI'KP NEXT V. f.EK. ?l;.tter ot tbe "inntioi. f-tro.-l A SrnilU'a llouJ NFirFt P.oy (at a euiumor re-ori ) "How long are you go.'nk' to stay h' re?"

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