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with a maleficent confident! that might have
warned her had she seen it. Bui she paid heed
to nothing else at that moment save the mys
terious words scrawled in a foreign handwriting:
"Have investigated * Firefly, incident fully.
Pargrave compelled Mackenzie to explain. The
American, Charles K. Spenser, recently residing
at Embankment Hotel, is paying Miss Helen
Wynt expenses, including cost of publish
ing her articles. He followed her on the day of
her departure, and has since asked .Mackenzie
for introduction. Pargrave greatly annoyed,
and holds Mackenzie at your disposal.
"Ken.net.
Helen went very white; but she spoke with a
firmness that was amazing, even to Bower.
"Who is Kennel - ' she said.
"One of my confidential clerks."
"And Pargrave? "
"The proprietor of 'The Firefly.'"
" I rid Millicent know of this — plot?"
■ \ ■
"Ah, dear Heaven! ' she cried, "for what
am i punished so bitterly?"
The Witness in Wax
of the jail To add to his tp
ford was dangerously ill, as the result
trai that iwful morning. ;
been unable to testify at the inqu< I
evident c wa I I • t::il. since I "
with its .v • using voict . ■
i at will.
The :.rrr t i : jroung R i
rmir.liT of his father, had ca '
■ ■ nitry. His great wealth had
made l"hn Ranee .i national I while
the i ause of little :
row, if any. t I ■■■*■ that he
ten ■ mpathet
not felt t" ex. use hi
The widespread publicity
■ ■ ' ■
day the twelfth man took his seat in tl
and the trial wa - read] I |
room was ] ' '
the i ot;rt':. I '
eekers clamored tor entrance.
After the pro iecutor
to the jury, the work of taki
■n rapidly. The : ■ •
ing a 1 '' but the trni'i of e\
. At the '.n<j-: '
had admitti I I a letter from his
• ng him with d
should • i give up M i i: - fie
had admitted making a hui unan
ed visit to 1 I c night the murder
H< hadadmitfc 11 . . I
■ ie c!.!< r man; that the last ■ i
between thei
beard i>v the maid, " Leave i
.son of mine! Blake draws up a new «
morrow?" He ad •■ r was
but stubbornly insisted that he had
with his father at the tattei i
ired he had an tnv
e.i .y fear oi
The demonstrator sent from I
i ompan >■ for the pmpa
iury droned on and on \<-
■ '.• d in having rnlol out
t. Nt <■•. idem c the transcription that the it
tion had made; l>ut had been unable to have
the records themselves excta
A\ electric thrill ran through the courl
■^^ when the demonstrator took tip the last
cylinder. The sensation ol the trial «
hand . and th« n» ng evidem ■
fr «n the i i
'„!er oi in i
them.
Through the letter to Blake tfie di
read Then . ame the Utter to V,
.mi with the openii
ter to hi si m tin I m w.i-
ind The mrv leaned forward I i
li .!v Even the young man from the v
phone company icemed t.. be bnl
portent of the words be wa ■ i I there
lew •• to his yon . .^ he :
for a moment at the break m the letter and then
re.el . learlv
Why. lark, my son, vmi here' Ha\
come to your senses? I was just writing t
Then. "That's all." he :-ani. .u\'\ r: ■:•
the rei ei\
In the dead silence that I >llowed thrilled a
clear, distinct voice, "Read the i
record '"
"Silem c in the court!" s.u.l tin fudge, look
mly in the direction from whi
i>l come A slight, girlish figui
ngly and .ame forward
" \ ■■nr Honor." she said, and her voice shook
and wavered a> if every word would !••■ the last
"1 do n>'t understand just what one should I i
in t « • >urt to be heard; bnl I a^k that th<
tor be told to read the n-.t of the I
The fudge glanced at the girl before him,
then at the demonstrator, who -t:!l sat I
mai hme " Read the restf" he conunandri]
" That's all . there isn't any more The i
the cylinder is blank," said the man
■ That is not all ! I have heard, and I know f"
"Finish the cylinder?" exclaimed the !
to the demonstrator, and the man replaced the
receivers. Slowly for the second time the needle
journeyed round the expanse of wax Those in
the farthest i orner of the p..>m could he
whir oi the mechanism Then the man .it the ■
machine gave an amazed gasp ll<- listened in- i
tenth tor a moment then moved the I
ducer !m> k and listened again
"Well?" queried the fudge impatienth (
■ Gentlemen, there i^ something mom
KARL ■
smoked in |ohann klu.
tet-th
■
"Ai
-
...
■
■
■
• -
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cylinder. There is a short, sharp crack Like a
revolver shut, and the voice •>£ the deceased
crying loudly, ' My God . Steve Clerford. you've
killed me'""
T7*»R a moment there was silence. Then the
prosecutor rose to his feet and announced
that with the reading of the Utters the State
closed its case. Then Wells, of counsel for the
prisoner, leaped to his feet, his eyes ihin:ng. It
was only a chance: but he seized it.
" Your Honor. " he said, "with your per
mission. I shall dispense with my formal pres
.... of the defense's case, and call Miss
Madge Clertord as my rirst witness. Miss Cler
ford. will you please take the stand "
Miss Clerford. having l<e*-n duly sworn, de
posed that on the morning after the crime >he
had been forced by Detective Havden to read
through all the .... on the cylinders.
"'Miss Clerford, do you know this Stephen
Clerford. whose name the deceased cried out tn
what was apparently his death agony?" asked
Wells.
"He is my brother!"
Her brother! Even the District Attorney
gave a little Rasp of pity. This frail yoane girl
knew that she must sacrifice either her lover
or her brother. — she held the lives of both in
the hollow of her hand.' This was the awful
battle she had fought out alone, knowing that
whether she spoke or kept silence one of those
dear to her must pay the penalty !
"Did your brother have any reason tor wi>h
ing to put an end to Mr Ranee, any grudge
against him 2 '" asked Wells.
" He thought he had a grudge." answered the
girl faintly. " Mr. Ranee hail discharged him.
and he thought it unjust. He told me very lit
tle of it: he seemed very unlike himself. He
said that Mr. Ranee had stolen some papers
about an invention of his that was to make him
rich and famous, and that when he objected
and tried to get Mr. Ranee to give them up. Mr.
Ranee discharged him and had him thrown out
■■■: the office. "
"' Do you know where he is now?"
" X»; I have not seen him since the night he
came home and told me he had lost his position.
He went out after supper, and I have not seen
him nor heard from him."
"That was when?"
"About two days before Mr. Ranee was
shot."
" What w.is this invention of which you
speak?"
" It was a contrivance to keep a trolley wheel
pole from slipping from the overhead wire. I
believe. Stephen wished to have it patented;
but we had no money, so he went to Mr Ranee
and asked his advice, knowing he was interested
in such things. Mr Ranee told him it was
worth little; but that he Would srf what could
be done Then Stephen found a letter, in which
Mr. Ranee represented the jx»irnt tn be his
own. anil then when he accused Mr Ranee of
stealing his invention he was threatened with
arrest lor attempted blackmail.
Wells paused a moment t<> let the jury get
the full effect of the gtrl's words. Every man
of them knew John Ranee to be fully capable of
such a deed as she described.
HPHKRK was a little bustle it the back of the
courtroom: a man pushed his way through
the crowd. His face was drawn anil ghostly
pale; one ami rested in an improvv>ed ■King:
and at every st«-p be took hi> white Epa twitched
with the pain that racked hi> wasted body
Straight to the Judge he went, and m>ne m
terf«T«->l There was »>methtng at* 'Ut the lean,
shrunken figure with its sunken pain tilled ryes
that held back the hands that otherwise would
have been outstretched to bar his progress.
The little buzz of astonishment that filled the
room died away as the man begun to sprak in a*
weak, quavering voice.
"I want t.» tell you gentlemen before I g>*
over the divide. Only a tew minutes left — I —
"I object, your Honor V shouted the Dtstrn t
Attorney. "This is, very irregular'"
Hut the Judge was a man. a> well as an inter
preter of the law. "It may I*- irregular. Mr.
Raddin." he returned: "but I take it that you
are not desirous of increasing your number of
convictions by adding to it that of an innocent
man " Proceed'" he added. {turning to the new
comer.
" I'm Clerford."* the latter resumed. "Steve
Clerford "
"Your Honor." interrupted Wei's, "if Mr.