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IOUUI CHAPTER V. Pk & If H«b«rtD*rreQt pooMMadonelanH ■tore than another, It waa that of betaf ft little too aalf confident In tfae profeaaion that ha had to adopt and at which ha waa deoidedlj prond ha had been phenomenally aoo- oatotal. partly owiag to hla own eaptlre facnltiee and pardy, ha owned It Umaalf, to goodtkick. Although ha waa alwaya ready to re gard hie clewa from different pointa of ▼law and teat them wall before he took daoielTa action, tboaa caaaa that ha had woren out of a aingle thread in the part had alwaya prorad hla dadnotiana to ba ao oorreot and wall fonnded that being atlll a young man, ha waa aometimaa Inclined to ba lad away by ideaa of hla own infallibility. He waa InvariaMy oaatkma, uniformly pendent and ganat ally right What a comfortable feeling foe a man until one day the awaken: and ooauea a little rndely I In order that Policeman ■honld gain no real inkling of the d! tlon in which hla thoughta ware tand- ing, ha had that morning paored to him ooocluaiTely that the murderer could be none other than Aetray den and then, Jnet aa clearly a minutes later, that he rery probably waa not, and now ha smiled a quiet ■mile of amneed self satisfaction at tha perplexity into which he had thrown that worthy cffloer of the law. It waa a harmlem conceit, a little joke of Dar- rent’e own, that ha had frequently in dulged la to the am Moment of many whom he had chanced to meet—the building up of the most damning evi dence from tha vary alandareat of claws and then, presto, the demolition of the whole thing, the crumbling away of the entire fabric m he placed a differ ent interpretation open each piece of evidence, and the whole thing faded in to leee than nothing I A hannleae sport enough this in it self, but a dangerous gams when the ■take wm life or death. Tha detect!** oomfortaUr enaoo in a seat of the train for Chicago, reading over the notee that he had made in regard to the caeeand now and ■gain glancing at one or other of tha relice of the murder m he wiehed to confirm a point, whistling through teeth the while a chorus from the h comic opera. It wm not that Herbert Daireol in hlmeelf callous of death or of der, bat when ane’s dally Ufa is given to the constant handling of reUoa of crime they cease to be objects of aw* loss their grewsome associations and ■imply bscoms clews that shell aMiai the chase. The stained knife with which the deed wm committed would doubt lees freeM the blood of any favored visitor when it wm added to a detective bu reau’s collection of criminal weapon* bat to Darrent it formed only one im portant item in the complicated pnaale that he wm putting together. He put It together piece by piece. It seemed to him to fit too easily. Everything point ed too much in one direction. What to an ordinarily constituted mind would have looked ao exceedingly sftnple be came to Darrent all the more difficult because of that very simplicity. . Every bit of evidence that he had col lected pointed directly to Astray Mare- dan m the murderer. There wm no get- tiag away from it, for already the knife had been recognised. Aetray was con demned by eagry circumstance and, more strongly than all. by the letter of the murdered man, the stained and crumpled letter that Dobson had tried to conceal Darrent could hardly keep from half wishing that old Marsden had not left the paper. Ho felt a little andbyed that what promised to be a big mystery, upon which he could exercise hie tal ante, should turn ont to be none and that b* the American Lecoq, should bfe ■ant down to discover the murderer, to team him inch by inch, when a casual acquaintance on the ice had told him at once who had done the deed and a dander headed fraud of a policeman had triad to conceal the actual paper that aoonaed the murderer. To a clever detective who had hoped for a tangled skein to nnnravel. which Would add yet another laurel to the many which he wore, it was annoying, •nd when Darrent arrived in Chicago and took a cab to headquarters he was not in the very best frame of mind and really regarded himself as a little 111 AA 10 o’clock next morning Darrent lighted from a hansom at a corner the Royal hotel, and m he started to eras the street a tall bootblack ao- aosted him “Shin* boast” The detective halted and slowly took eff his glove. ’’It’sall right, ” the bootblack rapidly continued in an nndertona “He's still Ahar* Theater last night; not out alno* ” And he accepted with becoming humility the coin which Darrent drop- pad. at a respectful distanc* Into a Tesy dirty palm. "Send my card up to Mr. Maraden,” Was Darrent’s instruction to the dark at the &<^al hotel, “and my that I African business-’ aim at onoe on important Marsden, who set idling over hla breakfast and skimming the morn ing paper, glanced at the card which the smart page boy brought him and Matenad to the message. ” ’The Honor able Rupert Grey.' Hum! Don’t know — jmLuesdVo c*Ua ^ ^s$e3iaiy“lB~fBi ngure of e tiercnle* but Dame Nature, In one of the mai 7 trick* she ' 1 sb fond of playing upon I -*children ad given him an utterly ,w per tf which wm betrayed by la face— a form of strength, a mind of weak- new; a good fellow, but no backbone; ever ready to procrastinate, never ready to aci He was a man people would torn and look back on in the street* as he towered above the paesarsby^ The embodiment of strength without, they could, pot know how weak and vadllat- wm within He wm simply the tcome of one of natore’e little hu mors that prevent monotony in the hn- man race. > Herbert Darrent could scarcely re press a start as he entered the room Astray Marsden was m he had himself described, as he had pictured him to the life even to the position in which he stood, the very position that the de tective had conjured up m he stood in the library at The Grange. It wm only another proof of the wonderful accuracy of his deductions. It really seemed that the than had poeed to complete the case which the detect ive from such tiny dews had woven ao skillfully around him. “The Honorable Rupert Grey?” said Astray interrogatively. Darrent shrngged hla shoulders and, taking the card from Astray’s hand, qnietly tossed it behind the fire as he replied: “Herbert Darrent of the Chi- oago detective bureau. One is obliged to nse an al?M sometime* The enemies of the force usually do, so we’re level 00 that” The effect of bis words certainly sur prised Darrent, used as he was to sur prises under similar situations, for the than he had worn throughout the in terview. “Tbs Honorable Rupert.Orti/T’ taid A* txlv. man seemed to utterly collapse before hie eyes and fell back Into a chair by the fireside, the very picture of abject terror and despair. .“Herbert Darrent, the detectiveT Astray gasped. Darrent nodded hie head. "“Yon have come to arrest me?** Again the detective nodded. He felt a bit perplexed. This was different from any of his previous capture* where the criminal had either lied or shown fight ■nd attempted to escape. “For the murder of my guardian. Juslah Maradon, eh ?“ Aetray continued, his tongue wetting hie parched lip* “Ye* for the murder of Joel ah Mars den on Jan. IS at hie country bom* which he called The Grange. Noroomb* and I warn you”— "I know what you warn m*” the other gasped—“that whatever I may say may be taken down and need in evidence against me. Then use It I am Innocent I swear it I’ve been her* and now the worst has happened and I shall be hanged—hangup because I can't clear myself, like many another poor wretch has been because fate wm against him Ye* I shall be hanged be cause a man in his hatred of me con demned me to death and then went with the devil's own sin upon hla soul to face eternity. He hated m& He al ways hated me. When I left him that night he cursed me, and as he died he conceived the vilest meet villa!none 11*” “You had better tell this to fata counsel.** “I want no counsel The aopa |e round my neck already.” He put hie finger op and loosened his collar. though he already felt the clinging grip jn *u i only be like many others that hi had so often heard. “Ok Ike night of the 10th of Jaau- ■ry, jnta a week ago, Dretarned toGhl- Bonth Africa. And teaveled to Barnetaple by tha • o'clock train next day/' Darrent in- “Tito HowntoMi Rupert Grey,” ha VMAsl “Wall. doesn’t matter, a#V ML 1 suppose I shaU aoou learn hit 11 bought a claim out then* > But how In the world dose he ■M or that I’m staying here?” hit from the tabl* he stood by Aha fia* with hla albow on Aha maatol- ptaoenad hla chin resting in hla hand. of the hemp “1 can’t escape when he himself condemned ma “ “Shall I order a cabr “Why order a cob? Why not hand cuff aw and drag me through the streets of Ghtoagot Let the world see an Inno cent man who will he done to death to satla$ Aha law, the bloodhounds of the law. Who yelp lor vengeance, who must hang assns on* because j^ahllo sontl- “Wellf “I returned to The Grang* and he welcomed m*” “You entered the library and stood on the left hand aide of the flreplao* M you were standing when I came into the room, with your elbow resting on the mantelpiece,” Darrent continued, “end then yon quarreled about the lady again. Your uncle asked yon if yon had outgrown your mad infatuation, and yon answered 'No.' Then he asked, ‘Will you marry the wife I have choaen for you?’ and you said, ‘No, no, no I* and emphasized each word by a blow of your fist on the mantelshelf ?“ Astray glared at Darrent in astoniah- ment “How do you know?” he asked. “Because I’m a bloodhound of the law,” Darrent replied, sneering in his excitement “Then yon both got more and more heated in the discussion, and at last the old-man, overwrought with excitement, became faint and asked yon to reach him some brandy from the sideboard, and yon did sa ” “Yea; that’aright” “Presently he grew calmer, and yon settled down and talked of other things.” “Yes, of my travels. ” “He became interested and asked you To teU him more. You drew up your chair opposite him and lighted yopr pipe, meerschaum.'' “Yea” “It wouldn’t draw. You took out your knife and cleared the dry, hard tobacco away from the bottom of the bowl refilled it and tried again, but the stem was choked. . Old Marsden of fered you a cigar You got out a box, a fresh and unopened box, from the side board, and pried it open with your knife, a Norwegian knife—this on*” And- Darrent suddenly displayed the knif* with the letter “A” burned into it, before Astray’s eye* "Yes; it’s true. That’s it M “I know it’s true. I know this is the knife and that this knife killed old Marsden. ” 1 “Go on, hang met Yon mean to I” “Yon quarreled again. Old men al waya get back to the same topic, and he brought yon back. Yon got angry, lost all control of your temper and"— Darrent shrugged his shoulder* “And left I swear It I left in a rag* turned the wrong way by mis take”— in the ~w Hole wide - worlds life or dtetfc Think of itr'Within a few hours th decision will have to be given—guilt* or not guilty, life or death I 10 o’Claek. —Dismally the ten strcki of the court clock sound, echoed a fe seconds later by ten deep notes from the belfry of an adjacent church, and the judge etiters the court, takes hie ■eat and opens his book. The monotonous voice of the court crier demands diene* and the inde scribable murmur inseparable from a body of people overwrought with in tense excitement subside* dies away like the sound of a retreating wave as the water flows down the bench. Astray Marsden. the prisoner, enters the court looking paler and more hag gard this morning than ever before, and, almost overcome with nervous anxiety, grips the rail in front of him m he faces the crowded court Then his eyes wander to a woman, closely veiled, dtting near his attorney’s tabl* where she has aat throughout the “And you know the country by heart ” “I wm blind with rag* I did not know where I whs walking. I walked for miles.' Then the snow came down, and I took shelter in a shed and when the storm wm over went back to the village hotel ” ‘ » “At a quarter past A Next day Chief Dobson called and showed you the pa per. Yon said yon would see him later, and then yon fled. ” . “Yea; that's trna. At first I meant to coroe to some arrangement with him —it looked m If he held my life in hie hands—but afterward I grew fright ened and came to Chicago. You're only just is time I Intended to start for Africa tomorrow. "You would not have reached New York.” “Yon mean I have been watched?” “Certainly, every atop, every move ment Was running away the act of an innocent man?” “I wm dazed when Dobson showed me the paper. It took all the life ont of me- It doomed me to death. Ther* In Maraden's own handwriting, wal my condemnation, and so all my courage vanished as soon as he had gone, and I sought refuse in flight' thorn ever meal for a victim shrugged hie shoulder* He wpe hegiaalpc to feel more at home now Aat Astray had launched out into this Mai* He had been called a blood- hound ee cttau by criminals he had traced and mptured that it sounded AU taosAjBto m amtmrnkm at guOt >r tw*m asA ^ndamned yet,” he oohDff aaswered. ‘•You’re only*rrestod ■ you can prove an Yea know I can’h" _ at the kin&* ra tell you all ” advise you. for your own " uaAIi yoa’re ^calmer, • dousing in the work la a very prosaic way Aetnratamhtix statements. “I ■MptateO Jtou all that happened that Htffc and yen can do what you ohoortVMl it sad briny me to the scaf fold if van Ilka” < VT' “Idpdnr sir, yen are talking wildly. The nitr has ao derire to bring you to the ssrfMd If you’to innocent’’ “Thai If yen are and can put me on the ttaskef the guilty party, so much the Mtot,” Darrent replied, seating himedl end preparing to listen to the weak^tolj? at defens* which he was ll hadn’t seen my guardian for two yarn* When I left him in 18M. it was aAm a eartoos quarrel He wanted me to tomry cue girl and I wouldn’t I loved another,” Aetray 000 “Without even bidding farewell to the girl you had promised to marry. ” “I felt I should he pursued. I dared not go to Bideford. Chicago wm my only chano* and then, if I could escap* Africa What more can I say?” "You hare said too much already, Mr. Marsden.” the detective answered qnietly aa he made a note that Astray’s ftarycee lived at Bideford. “You should have reserved this statement for your oonneel For the present you must con sider yourself under arrest I think we may as well be going. ” In half an hour the arrest of the Nor- oombe murderer was known all over Chicago. The papers came out with ex tras and sensational headline* and Her bert Darreut'a name was on every one's Up* The American Lecoq had scored another triumph, and every evening newspaper lauded him to the aide* It Wm nothing lees than their duty to praise one who aka time of stagnation, when there* was absolutely no news to help the sals of the paper* had placed columns at a great sensation within thsir ■ara-w "Rarely had a crime received so much publicity. For weeks the excitement was maintained at fever heat and fed by descriptive and imaginative The prisoner enter* the court, looking pater and more haggard ttum ever. whole of the trial a woman whom It is whispered Astray Marsden has promised to marry, but she has been called as« witness by neither sida For a single instant, for the first time during the trial, the girl raises her veil aad the prisoner catches a glimpse of a pale but beautiful faca A tremulous smile of encouragement hovers for a moment around hex quivering lip* and then the veil is lowered again, and the man braces himself for the final ordeal Tbe Sammlas I p. re port* The preliminary police jjqurt pro ceedings filled morecolnmnsT The groat was given verbatim day after day, and all tho while louder and louder ■welled the chorus that sang the praises of that prince of all detective* Herbert Darrent CHAPTER VL THE FATE OF ASTRAY tiARSDKN. The last day of the trial of Astray Marsden for the murder of his uncle one of the Chicago evening fopen contained the following: Noboombk, Feb. 20, 9J9* m.—The court is crowded—mote crowded, if poesibl* than it has been for the past two day* for the last act at the drama will be reached today, aad the verdict of the jury will be giv«|/lhe verdict that shall condemn Astray Marsden to an awful death or shall set him free among his fellow men Never before in the history of this country have the people experienced such a conditio^ of suppressed excite ment *s that which permeates the court house this morning. Even the cold blooded, phlegmatic court attendants cannot, try as they will escape the con tagion that pervades the swaying audi ence awaiting the final act in the great sensational trial Like all others in the building, car ried away by the suppressed excitement of the moment, they hold their breath and wail The minute hand of the clock slowly travels to the hear of 10. One by one the lawyers enter and take their seat* chatting m Idly m though the matter tD bt tried is not at the gravest import 10:05.—The judge commences hie summing up * ‘Gentlemen of the jury. " he say* “you have today entered npon the last stage of your labors in a case which to me has proved at once the most painful and the most obvious in all my experience of criminal trial* It only remains for me. as impartially m lies in my power, to review the whole of the evidence that has been placed be fore yon both in favor of and again* the prisoner, Astray Marsden. and to leave it to yon to-decide upon that evi dence whether ht»is guilty or not guilty of the crime with which he stands charged—the willful murder of Josiah Marsden “The evidence that has been placed before yon. gentlemen, 1* with one ex ception. but that is a fearful exception, of a purely circumstantial character, and It will be for you to say whether the aeries of circumstantial facte that have been detailed to you and which the defense has ingeniously endeavored to explai%gpay are sufficient to justify yon in returning a verdict of guilty and by that verdict ridding society of M cold blooded a scoundrel as ever breath ed or whether there is sufficient and reasonable doubt in your minds to jus tify you hi giving to the prisoner the benefit of the doubt “Gentlemen, let os look at the evi dence On the morning of the 12th of January Josiah Marsden was discovered in the library of his country horn* called The Grang* Noroomb* stabbed to death with a Norwegian clasp knif* which weapon yon have had produced. There is qo liijroate tfre murder was oommittea with mat Ynllh, and equally the defense does hot attempt to deny that np to the very night of the murder that knife was in the possession of Aetray Marsden. Tfee 9«aloe4 Pare*. “In the hand of Josiah Marsden wm foend this paper. ” The judge pauses impressively and takes np the blood stained paper that has caused such a sensation throughout the trial “This paper, ” he solemnly continue* “was found in the dead man's stiffened finger* Death had overtaken him be fore he could frame hie thonghta in word* and so his last message is only a broken on* 'I am dying,’ he wrote, •murdered by Astra’—a—e—A—r—a— and his life departed. , “The prosecution has told you that be Intended to write 'Astray Marsden. ’ The defense has been unable to deny it The proeecution has said he wrote so that justice might be meted out to his murderer. The defense has hinted, only hinted, gentlemen—even they have not dared to do more than whisper—that Josiah Marsden hated his ward or son and did what he did in'revenge, f act'd eternity with the foulest sin that man" could commit upon his soul died with a lie in his heart, that a young man might be hanged. Tho defense has hint ed that this is why the paper was writ ten. I will not venture to express my own opinion of such a method of de fense. Let ns look at the matter dispas, sionately. 'If we are to believe that Jo- siah Marsden committed this loathsome deed as his last aof on ear and that Astray Miirsden did not murder him. then that murder was committed by some unknown enemy of tho old man. “Has the defense been able to hint at any such person ? No. Has the defense been able to assume or deduce that any other person was in the house on that awhigET^ a* mm*-mi aim admitted that be need the knife to ‘ w wn a cigar box in the presence at hie iia: ad then left It behind -him " * the murderer, who, we era d the boose after the prison er nau left it Tha value of that pie* gentlemen, is again for you to dedd* “The murder wm firnt discovered by the woman Margaret Gadsden, who wm In the habit of going daily to attend to the domestic requirements of the de ceased. On the morning of Jan. It elm went, m usual and gained admittance at the side entrance by the key she al ways had in her poeseesion. “You will recollect that between the night of the 11th and the morning of the 12th there was a phenomenally heavy fall of snow, and the woman no ticed that there were footprints leading to the front door of the boas* but none leading from it e ‘‘Becoming alarmed at the unusual stillness which reigned through the house and unable to get any answer when she knocked at Josiah Maraden’s door, Margaret Gadsden hastened to the police station and returned with Chief of Police Dobson, v “That man, gentlemen, you have had before you. He has told you himself of his attempt to blind the alma of justice by withholding the most important pieoe-of evidence in this intricate cas* the paper that Josiah Marsden left be hind him. Dobson baa expressed his contrition and regret for the disgrace ful course which he took, hut whether that contrition will absolve him from the penalties of his action I very much doubt I cannot refrain from referring to the supreme and after idiocy mani fested throughout by Chief Dobson in relation to this case and cannot too warmly applaud the indefatigable en ergy, the zqal and acumen, of Mr. Her bert Darrent, the official who took charge of the case and wm fortunately able to retrieve all the errors—I will content myself by calling them errors at present—which Dobson committed prior to his appearance on the seen* Returning to the events of Jan. 12, you will remember that Dobeon and the woman returned together and npon en tering the library found Josiah Marsden lying dead npon the floor, stabbed to the hearti By his aide wm the paper which has had such an important bear the judge imp*. m have tan liat oi "WHle toe him, ■ively continue* “you defense that he left The Grs igs toon before the murder wm commJ ted." The judge closes his bool await hie peroration. We fee* umm wv know what it will b* “If you have no doubt, it Is your duty to do your duty—an eye for an ey* a life for a lif*” and many more rounde^phnaea with which, * judge is usually pleased to torment a man whose Ilfs or death is to be settled within the next hour. Bat we are mistaken. “Gentlemen of the jury, ” he say* “the case is in your band* ” And' that is all The summing up' is over. “Poor devil I’’’ some one again, and we shudder. It pm words what we dared not think. The jury do not mova They only whisper in the box. It seems m if they are going to decide without leaving it Bat .perhaps the seriousness of their task comes over them, and they slowly leav* and the prisoner is conducted from the courtroom. “Dead against him!” lathe general opinion. “Fair and just, but dead against him I He hasn’t got a line of defense in his whole case ” The jndge has retired, but no one else leaves the court The audience feels that it Is not a Case of waiting fox hour* bat minutes, perhaps only sec ond* The last words-of the srHnming crash through each man’s brain vhiapers its into ing upon the caa* the paper which heard Dobson's account of that inter view—that the prisoner turned pale and trembled and then promised to see him later in the day “It is for you to say whether Dobeon is • man whose evidence con be relied upon or not But. setting that npon one side, was the action of Aetray Marsden that of an innocent man T He sought refuge in flight It is urged that be be came the prey to a spasm of fear, but an Innocent man should have no each cowardly emotion. Why did he not defy the blackmail of Dobeon end. knowing his innocence, rest contented on being able to prove an alibi I Wfr T ? Because, gentlemen, he maid not; because he wm bound to admit that he wm at The Grange on that night He owns he wm st The Grange, but pleads that he left before the snowstorm and left Josiah Marsden alive “If the defence could prove that fact could account for the period that e la peed between the prisoner leaving The Grange and being met by Policeman Thompson, there might besoms grounds ‘ TOTTIof ony sTfl£Ui!HlHr**i t do they amount to?. Against the prisoner you have—everything; for him—nothing 1. The Verdict. The jury re-enter the box; the judge returns; the priaoner, between two deputie* takes his place in the dock. “Gentlemen of the jury, have you agreed npon your verdict ?” 4 “We have. ” “Da yon find the prisoner, Astray Marsden, guilty or nor guilty of the murder of Josiah Marsden f* • "Guilty I” A woman's scream, half stifled In its birth, breaks the fearful silence of the court—a scream followed by a gasp. The assembled throng breathes hard m what it knew must happen come* Then the deathlike silence falls like a pall again. “Prisoner at the bar, ” a voice is say ing. and it seems to come from some where miles away, even to us—what must it seem to him?—“have yon any- Brimbtonk Guru Diphtheria. - IT rounds to witnent <the uaccom- Field ou sa called “wonderful cures,” which he perform ed, while the patients of .others were- dropping on all sides. All betook with him was powder of sulphur and a quill, and ’with these he cured every case without exception^ that is, he put* teaspoonful into a wineglass of water, and stirred it with his finger instead of a spoon, as sulpflm does not readily amalgamate with water, and on the sulphur becoming well mixed he gave it as a gargl e > and in ten minutes the patient wm oat of danger, as brim stone kills every species of fungus in man, beast and plant in blew iuinutes. Instead of spitting out the gargle., and, ‘ he had 1 in extreme cases, in which he had been called jnst in the nick of time, when the fungus wm too nearly closing to allow the gatgling, he blew the sul phur through a quill into tho throat, and after the fungus had shrunk to al low it, then the gargling. He never lost a patient from diphtheria. Or if the patient cannot gargle, take a live* coal, put it on a shovel and sprinkle a spoonful or two of the brimstone at a time upon it, let the sufferer inhale it, holding the head over it, and the fun-, gus-wiH-die!—LondonL<mcet% > 1 ^ Sweet Watermelon Pickles.— Take off the green rind and cat off the pink portion from the inside of a water melon. Weigh, and to each seven pounds allow four pounds of sugar, a night! Na it hit* simply contented it self with a categorical denial'of every thing and* plea as surprising m it is abominable. “The value of that pie* gentlemen, I leave for yon to uecid* Let ns pass again to the circnmstantial evidence and deal first of all with Tfcs liorwestls* Knife. “This knife has the letter ‘A* brand ed npon Its handle The knife wm in the prisoner's posseeeion, it is agreed, until a few moments or a few boon be fore the murder It is admitted that Artrn Ms ratten- fBTTflg hoe been called to substantiate It. and we ore aaked to bellevs that be walked about for boon in a blinding snow storm That has been put before yon in contradistinction to the theory at the prosecution that he entered the hooee after the snowstorm, leaving his foot- printe up to the door; that the old standing quarrel which it is admitted on both sidee existed was renewed and that he left by the secret paeeage 00 to the frozen river, a passage that was known only to those who had lived at The Grang* “Astray Marsden was met by Thomp son soon after t o’clock in the morning of the 12th in a very excited condition, still chafing, tho defense says, under the insult* he hail had heaped upon him —chafing, geutlehimi. after several hours’ walk “I have-' reviewed tho circumstances that occurred in Norcombe, but it is not upon thoeo events alone that the caso stands Let ua turn tp Chicago Herbert Darrent has been before you and given his evidence with exemplary clearness He has told yon the manner in which he succeeded in tracking Astray Marsden to the Royal hotel in Chicago, and lie has related the sti >ry 0/ The Arreal. . ■ * “The first words of the prisoner when Darrent entert-d the ro.nu wore. ‘You have come, to arrest me. aml'tho.i rh warnetFnot to commit himself, h.- th 11 launched into a heated attack agum-it the murdered man. an. attack which foreshadowed the lino-of defense which has been adopted—that of revenge He charged Josiah Marsden with leaving such a message for the sole purpose of encompassing the death of an innocent m<\n whom he hated. “With that point I have already 'dealt The idea in itself la too callous to dilate upon. “In the prisoner's confession to Her bert Darrent he accounted for the loss of his knife in the same manner that the defense has insisted npon. He took it out to open the cigar box, forgot it and it was left lying upon the tabl* a handy weapon for the murderer. To that point of the defense I will bat add a word. t “If the murderer of Joeiah Marsden came to the boose with intent to mur der, would he have left the finding of the weapon to chance, or vironld he have come prepared ? If he came prepared, would he nse a chance weapon or truxt to the one he knew ? "Let me now, before you retire to consider your verdict, pot. i*to~*ies* words the whole evideno* Against the prisoner yon have the lost words of the dying man, the knif* the long stand ing quarrel the abeence of a reasonable alibi, and for him’’— The Judge pauses and deliberately turns back of hie note* while the whole A seems to throb with emotion. ' “It’s a fearful ; summing up, lawyer whispers to another. “Brutal—dead against him devil I’’ his companion rep lie* glancing at the prisoner, who, pale M death, gazes before him with eyes that ms nothing poor ■honld not be peesed upon yon ?' . All eyes are turned with one Impulse toward the dock, and the spectators ■tart with amazement The prisoner, the man condemned to death, whom they had pitied through out the trial as one ao miserable that he could not defend himself, is trans formed He stands oiyt wlfh * glow npon fill efieeUT nearly a mSBc ffT>oh his Up* manhood snd courage awaken ing in hie ey* He is condemned to death and stands m though his fettan hod been released. We are areatana of impale* The spectators gaae at one another. The aame thought is In every mind, “Snp- poee he is innocent!” There ie meemer- lam in his glauc* and they follow It as It nata npon the girl with her head thrown forward on her arms npon the The judge shifts uneasily, movi though to spook. He eeeme held power less by that strange force which is npon The girl feels the power or that glanc* and a« if in obedience to its command throws berk her veil and rises and faces Astray l^rsdun, and m she does so even the heavens odd to the in tensity of the seen* The sun' is setting. The room is shrouded in gloom, save for one glorious beam of light which pawnee over the ■boulder of the priaoner and floods the face of the girl with a halo of tight They face one another, and the spec tators pause and watoh. lust in the mystery of the thonghta that are pass ing between them. •'Ethel I” Only the lifting of the face more to ward him shows that she has heard. "Do you believe me guilty? Do yon believe thafS am a murderer?” “Nor* - * v It ie only a whisper, but It thrill* Where have sophistries gun* where an The girl throws back her veil and rise* deduction* when compared with tta love of this woman who stands thus bo- fore the world ? “If I were a free man, would marry mo as you promised years ago I” . 1'Ye pint of vinegar, two teaspoonfuls of allspice, the same of cinnamon, half the quantity of cloves, half a teaspoonful of ground mace and a teaspoonful of ginger. Mix all the spices together; separate them into four parts, and tie each part in a piece of cheesecloth. Put the watermelon over the Are in cold water, bring to a boiling point and cook until it is transparent. 1 train it. Put the sugar and vinegar with all the spices in a porcelain-lined kettle. When boil ing add the watermelon; a little at a time; cook until it is dark—not more than five or ten minutes; then pul away in a stone jar. Next morning drain off all the juice, heat to a boiling point and pour it over the watermolnn rind. Do this for nine consecutive mornings, the last morning heating the watermelon rind again in the'juice and boiling the juice down until it will just coser the nud.—Ladies' Home Journal. Pekin has a tower in which is hung a tinge bell caat in the fifteenth century, and another tower containing a huge drum, which is,intended to be beaten in case a great danger should throated the city. No one is allowed to enter these towers. Liberal railroad rales to the great State Fair will lie made fair week. OFTEN WHEN BABY DOES ITS FIRST STEP MOTHER IS TOO WEAK TO WALK DuPierceS FAVOPITE PRESCRIPTION MAKES MOTHERS HEALTHY&5TR0NG PITT$’ FOR ' The Stomach, * The Liver, The Bowels, " The Kidneys, The Blood, The Nerves, Contagious Diseases. -o- eal The prisoner turns to the judge, tbs girl resumes her seat, and the spell te broken. ^ ' “I have nothing to say, my lord, b*» .that I am innocent ” . The leatenee of Death. j Astray Marsden was sentenced so J death bernuse it was the duty of tha judge to do so, but every spectator wita filed out of the courtroom after the seCr tence was pronounced was trouble? with doubts as totho result of the trii_ . As one si>ectator expressed it: “Mars den was found guilty by the jury bo- mm tiJH’JtlFTcould cdmddw*ta e eri- Antiseptic Invigorator is a germ-killer, a dmreti* a blood purifier, a stomach and Pitts’ Antiseptic Invigorator Co. THOMSON, QA. dence and come to no other verdict, and the judge sentenced him to death be-’ cause tho judge was compelled to. But „ii Marsden guilty?” [to be coimytrED.] Merino* For the South. The Marino k the oldest race of afleep. and its home for ages past, since Abel fed hie flock, has been in a cli mate which provides or permits of perennial pasture without Intermission on account of winter and cold weather. Thua It is the sheep of all aheap suited to the southern state*-Sheep Breeder. 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