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an aunt: annual. lllppio I G Yet the case unfolded by the pro- secution was deadly enough. Though stated with impartial fairness by the leading counsel for the "Crown, it seemed to leave no loop-hole for escape. The evidence relied on was `the same as that given at the in- quest, which.,had caused the coroner to issue his warrant. The mam ar- gument, in fact, on which the jury was invited to convict the prisoner was that he had 'quarre'lled with his father, and no one else could have committed the crime. When Mr. Armstrong, K.C., sat down the judge -was looking grave, casting those fur-` tively frowning glances towards the dock, which, as a rule, bode nogood to the p'risoner s chances. (`HA Ln...I_ `L LL-" -, A - answered `with a cherf1d1Zl1V1-c'>d._ Lox-_dvMo,nksi.lver was the rst wit-- ness_ called. During the opening for the `Crown he had occupied a seat on 911!` `:51-noun-I LA CHAPTER XXII, A Missing Witness. There was not a vacant seat in the Assize Court at Wroxford when the trial of Dick Wenslade for the .mur- . der of his father commenced. There is no need to describe at length a scene familiar to most peop1c,- and which differs only in the minor de- tails of setting the stage.- .If there wasone thing more -than another that impressed the spectators on this occasion, it was the serenely condent demeano r of the young prisoner as he ste ped into the dock; His. plea of Not Guilty. `was uttered` in a tone almost 1 pant. Vnf noun IIHMAIIA I.-- L`_. A_. -- w--v yv-wu do ntuv 1 Iuuma. iruu `1'A'Bw'-l:l__;.ILA_lIO Abn`. gaiiitfu-riou memsha 9 u been com` Ti eh mam f ofA'thts-Ban`l':.'ar:ec:'l:l:to xssdei Drgf -on thee` p.-`1';.u`.i.1 pglnts . L,` in th9folloAw1 n3'coun_trle5:,V . ` y A - A ` Q .: -J` TD-RA!-'-`TS on roman coUNTan=.s' Austria-Hungsry Finland ` Belgium ` 4-Formosa, `Brazil ` France , A .Bulga.ria Fr.`ch Cog ' 13 Ion Germany`? .. Chin ., ~ "great Britain -`On ' " _-4--A I ! up V ,.w aita.% ns.geg;% BARRIEBRAVNCLH H- 'J_. G1 !-A-SE -l" I`. Manager. ..,..y.... .u uuu, xaai. quceuun'_al1(l 8115- twert, experienced; trial-goers thought.` ut the purport Of. both was ,ve:led gin` mystery. That ` the greatadvo-. `feate believed `himself to, have scored.` ` 1; important. proint. was - obviau's; from 11 ' :i'nip're`ssive glance` he threw .,at an: v;.~it wise equa'1ly:p'12iin _ that M not `gs yet .i!1f}`ld.:~_tQ. ._di`scIo's_e- e `which .t_h;e`.gdi:'fencee V3! )1 sub xauncl . Sergeant `Scott, who, all his Scotland Yard expextience, had failed `to trace the origin of the pistol, was not put into the box; but helwas present in }e.9t`rt, and_ was one of the rst to shp away when the judge left the bench for l_.unch eon. Dis- daining. the `-superior ,attractions - `of the two. large` hotels; he plunged into a side `street.-qnd1entered_an un- preten't'i_ous 1Sublic_ahoiise;_~.;. _vH _ aybido ed` the Bar, and;"as if familiar yfiith the premiseshran iipstairs to a team on the ..__rs_t- obn.`awherj`5.l1e:\_jva_s cage?-ly _w,elc.0r_nedh by` Elisha .Crciyve. es- u Mr. .Ci-mire ~it :* u-'.'g'nn.`.- :=.-t.l.~.'o- ' cacr1y WCICUIILGG Dy xmsna _Crow.e. .`Ycs, `Mr. ,C'rowe,`~it s pamung out `all right, he said. We wpagssed the nasty `corner`wi_thr` the brake well run. Vyner `handled . .the'_ `Old lpndl `a treat,` and got `what he wanted with-. out showingthis _hand. But o ur_;;1an is _clever, and I could see that-*~h`e felt _th_e liar ,wh`n' the O`d_`~bQy`. '~-`was as'kcq_'a.bou gv. `tile length of i'tlx;'e. -fgmily meetnaw 1 .For a` tmm.nt:;l:I athoyshs he ha. at Em "back-`~`-of `l_h,e";%..:13xv;_s-Q91: . '32 5 J, .4, . ' '3 _ 'h5he::anzg;_gdl lghia` \`lll\pl\ ll\y\aCDIUIIo When he returned. to `court, In- spector Pea:-man was under exam- inat_ion,,and thence onward till the adjournment "for lunch the prosecu- tion. woundtits coils with unerring precision round the calm young man In the dock. - Other-police `wit-i nesses followed the ;Inspector--the constable who had rst~been "called to the scene, the man who had made the model of the .Rectory., and the _o iEe`fs' who had assisted in vainly searchingithe garden for traces of an intruder ` from outside-._" The e-maid-servants w.ere:._ca`lled.i to .px;ove that no one ihadleft the premises _.-by the back. `The essence of -all - the evidence was` to the same effect-_' 1 that '. nobody___._ but _Dickl-;W;enslade, [could have `yred the shot that slew, ihis father. ' .- . ` 4., e .. Q______A_._ (V ,... .1 -I,- I i there were at Whateverihe may have felt, Mr. Ravenscar evinced no` surprise at being spared what must be mofe or less of an ordeal to the. most straightforward witness. Nor could anyone who was watching him-and leastthree_. such in c,oux`.t--discern any elation in -the sec`retary s rigidly .con'1posed_featurA- es; He appeared to accept his dis-* missal as a matter of course, due to the merely formal nature of his testimony. But for an abstemious. man he did rather a`surprising thing; he elbowed "his way out of the Court`-house, and in_- the private bar ofthe adjacent` hotel consumed two liqueur glasses of neat brandy in quick succession. `X7-L`... I.-. A. - . , - `I _-L--.... - J uu5u., us. uv uuu, g - Neither Mr. Ravensca_r s loyalty." to his employer or capacity for truth- tellingwere subjected to the strain [which he "had, perhaps, expected; Counselifor the prosecution merely [got from him a corroboration of ;Lord Monksi1v.e'r s evidence as to jtheir position on the lawnwhen the shot was red, and of the fact that no onefbut the. prisoner had emerg- ed from the study window.` -Counsel for the defence, half rising from his seat, and not so much as looking at the witness, indicated more by ges- ture than by voice `that -he" had no questions to put in cross -examina- tion. - "`A_`_ A _. . g_ `u, lllltsivlrll \; U]. _`\vIl.I\I|I\-lll. `But he was the next witness, and by the time he had stepped into the box the anxiety and subsequent rc- lief had passed away. Mr. Raven- jsc'ar s face was a mask of deferential respect for his surr_oun'dings.' ~ His demeanour was correct to the last studied detail of _the attitude" in which he arranged his tall gure in the box, so as to`give an equally divided attention to judge, counsel, and jury. e There was nothing ab- ject about him. .He was just the faithful servant, dragged into an af- `fall'. l1`npl'SOI'l3l to himself, much lagamst his will,` but who meant to ;tell the truth however painful it jmight be to him. ~ ` 1u..:n..._ `up n-__---_--.-! - A the bench. But as he was wedged in among a crowd of waiting witnesses nobody ` noticed _ it. This _was Mr. Ravenscar, who watched the old peer s return to his seatwith an ex4 pression inswhich there was more than the kindly solicitude '1 it was :meant to convey. There was relief in it; yet, just for an instant,_ dur- \ing the brief cross-examination of lhis employer, the secretar'y is-` Sal"-. ilo.w countenance_had worked with a mixture ofhlemotzons. ` - V .D-_L L- ____- LL- 4.._,A , ,9: U i>Ei;aae 1.1...a Rnunmnnln ` ` Sosnth Africa .- Straits Settlement! ` Q_'..-.I-.. to ak your V he __mterest "11. : 1:_I.z1,t!_1.ess:; and:;5t; ;}s!,anc;s1; anus-vvua nu-acarrlage At this point in Mr: Vyner -speech .there was `a slight ; commotion near one of the dobrs, ` `caused. by`? some; pegjsqn "or persons .h:_u-riedly. jgaving the`C91_1rt,_ The'Ki11'g"-s Conn.- sel`: patgsed," "g`:12 i)ig' fin : .the_. diggction fWhf,:,.!f'e"`itftl[)tiOI1"?,-had occurred, J t figgicantly at _,th._ _ use: vv IHICSDCS. - 'But before doing so, he should llike to say that, for he elucidation lof the startling truths e was about to lay` before `them, they were all indebted to what some people would call luck, but which he preferred to attribute to the interposition of a Higher `Power. The discoveries had been made owing to the residence in -the village ofBeacon Audley of a retired detective,` who `had achieved fame` many, years ,ago `in America, andwho, tempted by` the intricacy of the `problem . `and; :forti.-d- by. an f-'in`side- knowledge -of the` psrties`g.congerned, i had `come d_ovvg1_iri,to the an-;e11"_ai1`._to leispoujse tlhe -p r1s'on_er.s cause. ,. -o jtisV - gent e- man, Mr. . Elisha ..Crow_c 7 _forin`erly' of "Pinker-ton s Detective. Xgency they o;;sa.a V !=s'a1lie.iff{9nI:vgha!.i `n ,a ;.,pro it you-d ave; eenz .`f'_1- ;gr_:eyo_u`sj_. ,s1ca rria'*gei ~o_f_ `Justice. "ALt.1"tIn Janine :11 ... u_;., I away, xcavsug H0 Il'aCC Denmd. He` was so condent; Mr.- Vyner proceeded, .in establishing these facts that he should not waste time in appealing to the jury on the score of .the prisoner- s youth, or in trying to work up sympathy, forvhim in .connection with the pathetic little `love story interwoven with. the af- fair. He. demanded Richard Wen- slade s acquittal as a right, for.the `simple reason that someone else had perpetrated the deed for which he was arraigned. vH`e, counsel, stood "there rather as a prosecutor than as an advocate for thedefence, and he should at once proceed to call A his witnesses. " .13..` `_-'A ' . gm u. uau uccn UCb_`lg'IlC(] S0 to be. { The .I-lfonourable and Reverend Chaloner -VVens1ade, continued coun- sel, had not met his death at the hands of the son, with whom he had unfortunately quarelled, but had been deliberately murdered by a cunning villain who had taken ' ad- vantageof, if he had not actually fostered, that quarrel in order to divert cncnininn 3-..... I.:..-_..1: mu--- nus. xcuauu wny the cnargel .f::%nst the prisoner had appeared wx out a flaw. It was because, by an ingenuity little_short of devilish, it had been designed to be. .T-r(\!1f\1n-n`\la ---I 7` ~ ~ 1 ixp `here? instead: bfshowing gourt, _or he might have been "scared T.._1,;1t'o a shall;-I be wan. 5 .915. vv\-1 gu use sauna unuertone. - . v_ On themeassentbling. of the Court` there were signs that the"agging interest `in the trial had revived-. The prosecution had reared an ap- parently impregnable wall between `the prisoner and safety, and, though no` doubt prevailed as to-the ulti- mate result, everyone was eager to see how Mr,eVy.ner would endeavour to extricate his client.` So far as the shrewdest of p_ the spectators could-"discern, hehad not a leg. to stand on, yet_._he was sure to make aght for `it, even if he was reduced to putting f rward the plea of tern.- porary men al disturbance. l nllf 0-uh;-gnggngd. A`- - ` ` yvauly IIICIII-dl u1aLurDaX1CC. But the moment the eminent bar- rister began to. speak it was seen at Once that he had-a stronger defence than brain-storm? to interpose be-_ tween D'ick'Wenslade and a shame- ful death. 'He began very quietlyby paying a tribute to the fairness with which the prosecution had present- ed their ,case-a case which, so far as it went, had not a aw in it, and which he frankly confessed till a few hours agohe, had had but. the slenderest hope of breaking down. But a merciful Providence had in- gtervened` to prevent the young man at the bar from suering for an- other s sin, and now, at the `last moment, he was able to tell the jury the true reason why the charge asramst the nricnnnr ha.) -..\..-.....-.4! ` 7<`ihii J _ Uvtiek toihim likeya leech, once Vyner-'K.C.ihas given the show away? replied Scott, and he hurried" ,off to esn-atcha little hasty refresh- ment" at the barof the hotel where Ravenscar and `Lord Monksilver were *lunching together in, the coec- `room. "On his way back `to the `court he met Major `Wi1bx-aham in the street,.looki.ng flushed `and excited, a singular thing considering the smoothness with which the police evidence had run.` You are prepared` fon emergen- jcies? _ the Chief Constable whisper- i ed as they passed each other without stopping. Ouite- {vac H19 Q\AI-`rvl`:nnI> .. ....... ` FUPPII`Is.' \`__ "Q_uite,_ was the S\efg'e;int s ans- wer 111 the same undertone. nfl flip I-aneanoqI.1:..-, ,9 gt- A a;L\.;. lllllln` < as \ Elisha`s mi`le d grimly, t':11ve:n grew? jsuddenly grave. You understand, of course, Mr. `Scott, that it may be a matte`: -oflife and death to- get, your grip _on him- the. moment he` gshawsi a_ (hsposition to break cove'rz" s.he.`s`a`id. "In the_excitement of a d_etectiv.e triumph mustn t lose sxght of the girl s `danger, which Vrst me into the business, ._as" you know. -T ..I.;1I -4.:_1_ . 'I,! . 1-1 1 u -. }._s`?,fNot ilgejforgigthe 9?I6:k, replied Serg?9n.1:?3~`~".. .`1,_ ll `over for ion inugood time. It depends o_n_ how: lo ng',"`Vyner takes over I 1115 _sp_e ech. ` Now I must get back tqi keep an eye on our friend,` thougn I don t think he'll ;be On the -wing yet` awhile; He dbesn t know-beg.- ging your pardon, Mr. Cro we--that; `The Ijluman Fe ;-ret is_in_-the hole. after him'.?v_ .. `I'}I2_L ,,,,!I,1 ' I .1 , A .- 4 , _ /1 .. -`. =24-sx;,~;>~..r.v_uv `_ lord- - t6 V .- tb'{f;.T;*ec:xi'1`: T .;.;~'v'~ '+1..a.-1.` .~.y3.`3 3:123 ""_'c3d"U_C .IUl' INC. CCICHCCI Th family _meetmg of which TY011, SP,!<. ;my lord, took place in `Lgifnfwing-room at the Re"ctory,VI ::It did. _ The drawmg-1_'oom w.indows41oo*k _out on ghe carnage dnvg, do" my V` dlernt aspect_ from that of :t e shady wmdgw, wh1c1;` ha; 3 View V!vf:xl'_htate.lawn,? _ . ~ scan *3 5} d h. -. - `N . 3 ur` or 5 1p give `me xapyi ea-_V _the 'durat1on of H115 fan-nly !n.t"| . which led. to f'ricti9.n; be`- :?'.`W 1'. .Wenslade. and;-his son? , If rnnco `ning l....a....I. - .t_..n n- ' g"__t'a`~tth'-ere`:lh!El:ehWltneSS box, though W % :.gr1fdors. ~lo2g_`., Imbadly 1n the dock ' 1.s'h;` _ Yl1 have taken precau ' gigs. -::1.h the sharp query fro ~ . . V c . . I ` `.:0h yes, my lord was the 7T111f'he .present,tri al has be A 394 95. It` vyould have (_ ehapplned for a warran _ Yard ..s, and _w1l1 d.o e WOMEN'S -noun DEPABT _ _ _,_.- -vI~uIllW A A_ III amerlca. A magazine article `every morning. Just `one column. Always bright and instructive._ . 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His evid- ence bore out the sta.teme._ntvp resent~ ed by counsel, and waschiefly direct- .ed at showing that he was in full view of the study `windowwhen his attention was attracted by the shot. and that no one could have come out that way without being seen by him and his private secretary, who was with him at the time. ~ It was "also elicited from him that the fam- 0 Ilv. meeting at which he had been present wasa st0rmy'one,' his de~ ceased brother and his nephew hav'- In` come to `high words? ; hen Mr. -Vyner, . K.C,., rose to `cross-examine for. `A the defence: ' Th 4'-nail... --an`-'--- -" W ' ' " ,- -- -'1`heMVail ahd'Emp1re has every service that any paper can buy a V rvice, over our Spa wire. which includesfa. Special Qal the. fu1l..Financln1. News g.-ma..- -1 vvatc. vuucn mcmaesa. Special C the fu1l,Financlalv_New.s service i Sun. `I. . HTVYIT `I\A1-an-4 __ ,_.,,,-.....u xgr. me uetence," which of-thewxtnessevs .d_o. yo -inquiz-ed. the Judge. } . *Catt.=r% I$%n!%9a%r?f%% . 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But Mr. Vynexf, eK.C., was poring over his brief, and his fine, clear-cutifeatures, so far" as they. could be seen, were absolutely expressionless, giving no clue to his thoughts. The old hands` t.urn_ed~ to the nriennnr orra:n o....a 4.1.- ...... A- aou ' P she sharp W3 -.`u`ru. --,. ,. , 1--.! um: us-7i ...uu5.ua. nae 010 names` u_1rned~ to the prisoner again, and the. prisoner was smiling at his-.sister among the spectators, a` smile which Yvonne with cheerful nod. Y. (1.1! Mnnbn:l.-A- ----- l-`-- `' ` "