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| ^ K6c Woman in the Alcove
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III.
ANSON* DURAND.
ITH benumbed senses and
a dismayed heart, I stared
at the fallen jewel a.s at
some hateful tiling nienao-
honor.
“X have had nothing 10
do with it," 1 vehemently
declared. “I did not put
the gloves in my bag. nor
did I know the diamond
was in them. I fainted at
the first alarm, and—*’
"There! there! I know,"
interposed the inspector, kinder. "I do
not doubt you in the least; not when
there is a man to doubt. Miss Van Ars-
dale. you- had better let your uncle take
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I you all further importunity tonight."
I 1 shook my head. It would require
more courage to leave at that moment before?"
! than 'to stay. Meeting the inspector's “No.”
eye firmly, 1 quietly declared, j
■'If Mr. Durand’s good name is to suffer j
in any way. I will not forsake him. I'
have confidence in his integrity, if you;
iug both my life and j jj^ve not. it was not his hand, 'but one |
much more guilty, which dropped this,
jewel into the bag. }
“So! so! do not be too sure of that,
little woman. You had belter take your
lesson at once. It will be easier for you, j
and more wholesome for him." {
Mere he picked up the jewel.
‘•Well, they said it was a wonder!’’ lie
exclaimed, in his sudden admiration. "I
am not surprised, now that I have seen
a great gem, at the famous stories I have
read of men risking life and honor for j
their possession. If only no blood bad
been shed!
"Uncle! uncle!" I wailed aloud in my
agony.
Tt was all my lips could utter, but to
uncle it was enough. Speaking for life
j lirst time, lie asked to have a passage
made for 11s. and when the inspector
moved forward to comply, he threw his
arm about me, and was endeavoring to
find fitting words with which to till up
the delay, when a short altercation was
heard from the doorway, and Mr. Du
rand came rushing in. followed immedi
ately fey the inspector.
His first look was not at myself, but
at the bag, which still liung front my
arm. As 1 noted this action, my whole
inter self seemed to collapse, dragging
my happiness down with it. But ntv
countenance remained- unchanged, too
much so, it seems; for when his eye
anally rose to my face, he found there
what made him recoil and turn with
something like fierceness on his compan
ion.
"You have been talking to her," he ve
hemently protested. "Perhaps you have
gone further than that. What has bao-
.-ened here? I think I ought to know.
She is so guileless, Inspctcor Dalzell; so
perfectly free from all connection with
this crime. Why have you shut her -IP
here, and plied her with questions, and
made her look at me with such an ex
pression. when all you have against me
is just what you have against some half
i dozen others—that I was weak enough, or
unfortunate enough, to spend a few min
utes witli that unhappy woman in the
r.lcove before site died?"
"It might be well if Miss Van Arslaie
herself would answer you," was the in
spector's quiet retort. "What you have
said may constitute all that we have
against you. but it is not all we have
against her.”
I gasped, not so much at tiiis seeming
accusation, the motive of which 1 believed
myself to understand, but at the burning
blush with which it was received by Mr.
Durand.
"What do you mean?’’ he demanded.
"While you talked?"
Mr. Durand bowed.
“And looked at the diamond?’’
Mr. Durand bowed for the second time.
“Had you ever seen so fine a diamond
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I have one of the finest sanitariums in j -with a look in my direction that was, I
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do not call it a triviality,” I burst
out. "It seems that Mrs. Fairbrother,
was found
without gloves on her arms. As she cer
tainly wore them/>n entering the alcove,
the police have naturally been looking
for them. And where do you think they
have found them? Not in the alcove with
her, not in the possession of the
man who undoubtedly carried them
away with him, but—”
"1 know, I know,” Mr. Durand lioarse-
lv put in. "You need not say any
more. Oh, my poor Rita! what have I
brought upon you by my weakness?”
. “Weakness!”
He started; I started; my voice was
I totally unrecognizable.
j "I should give it another name,” I
• added coldly.
j For a moment he seemed to lose heart,
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j as handsome as when lie pleaded for
my hand in the little conservatory.
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wrong. It was unmanly in rue to en
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less rigid investigation, and I feared, if
her gloves were found In my possession,
some special attention might be directed
my way which would cause you un
merited distress. So, yielding to an im
pulse which I now recognize as a most
unwise, as well as unworthy one, I took
advantage of the bustle about us, and
of the insensibility into which you had
fallen, to tuck these miserable gloves
into the 'bag I saw lying on the floor
at your side. I do not ask your par-
: don. My whole future life shall be de-
"Yet you deal in precious stones?"
“That is my business.”
•'And are regarded as a judge of them?"
"I have that reputation.”
"Mr. Durand, would you know this
diamond if you saw it?”
"I certainly should.”
“The setting was an uncommon one, 1
hear."
“Quite an unusual one."
The inspector opened his hand.
"Is this the article?"
"Good God! Where—”
"Don't you know?”
"I do not."
The inspector eyed lam gravely.
“Then T have a hit of news for you.
It was hidden in the gloves you took
from Mrs. Fairbrother. Miss Van Ars-
dale was present at their unrolling.”
Do wo live, move, breathe at certain
moments? It hardly seems so. U know
that I was conscious of but one sense,
that of seeing; and of but one faculty,
that of judgment. Would lie flinch, break
down, betray guilt, or simply show as
tonishment? I chose to believe it was
the latter feeling only which informed
bis slowly whitening and disturbed feat
ures. Certainly it was all his words ex
pressed as his glances flew from the
stone to the gloves, and back again to
the inspector's face.
"I can not believe it. I can not believe
lit." And his band flew wildly to bis
forehead.
“V et it is the truth. Mr. Durand, and
one you .have''now to lace. How will
you do tiiis? By any further explana
tions, or by what you may consider a
discreet silence?”
"I have nothing to explain—the facts
are as I have stated.”
The inspector regarded him with an
earnestness which made my heart sink.
“You can fix the time of this visit I
hope; tell us, I mean, just when you left
the alcove. You must have seen some
one who can speak for you.”
"I fear not.”
A\ hy did lie look so disturbed and un
certain?
“There were but few persons in the
hall just then.” he went on to explain.
“No one was sitting on the yellow
divan.”
'You know where you wont, though?
Whom you saw and what you did before
the alarm spread?”
Inspector, I am quite confused. I did
go somewhere; I did not remain in that
part of the hall. But I can tell you
nothing definite, save that I walked
about, mostly among strangers, till the
cry rose which sent us all in one direction
and me to the side of my fainting sweet
heart.”
"Can you pick out any stranger yom
talked to. or any one who might have
noted you during this interval? You
see. for the sake of this little woman, I
wish to give you every chance.”
“Inspector, I am obliged to throw my
self on your mercy. I have no such wit
ness to my innocence as you call for. In
nocent people seldom have. It is only
tlie guilty who take tile trouble to pro
vide for such contingencies.”
Tiiis was all very well, if it had been
uttered with a straightforward air and
in a clear tone. But it was not. I who
loved him felt tlmt it was not, and con
sequently was more or less prepared for
the change which now took place in the
inspector’s manner. Yet it pierced me
to the heart to observe this change, and
I instinctively dropped my face into my
hands when I saw him move toward Mr.
Durand with some final order or word
of caution.
Instantly (and who can account for
such phenomena?) there floated into view
before my retina a reproduction of the
picture I had seen, or imagined myself
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that time it opened before me an un
known vista quite removed from the sur
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his own breast, on which lie had aheady
laid one quivering linger.
What did it mean? In the excitement
of the horrible occurrence which had en
grossed us all. I had forgotten this cu
rious experience; but on feeling
i that would have struck me at once—but
some other opening which I might recog-
1 nize if I saw it. Cannot that opening be
j found, and may it not give a clue to the
: man I saw skulking through it with hor-
ror and remorse in his heart?”
i “Was tiiis figure, when you saw it,
turned toward you or away?" the inspec
tor inquired with unexpected interest.
"Turned partly away. He was going
from me.”
“And you sat—where?"
“Shall I show you?”
The inspector bowed, then with a low
word of caution turned to iny uncle.
"I am going to take this young lady
into the hall for a moment, at her own
request. May I ask you and Mr. Durand
to await me here?"
Without pausing for reply, lie threw
open the door, aryl presently we were
pacing tlie deserted supper room, seek
ing Pie place where I had sat. I found
i; almost by a miracle—everything being
in great disorder. Guided by my bou
quet. which I had left behind me in mv
escape from tlie table. I laid hold of the
chair before which it lay, and declared
quite confidently to the inspector:
“This is where I sat.”
Naturally his glance and mine both
(lew to tlie opposite wall. A window was
before us of an unusual size and make.
Unlike any which had ever before come
under my observation, it swung on a
pivot, and, through shut at the present
moment. might very easily. when
opened, present its huge pane at an an
gle capable of catching reflections from
some of tlie many mirrors decorating the
reception room situated diagonally across
tiie hall. As all tlie doorways on tills
lower floor were of unusual width, an
open path was offered, as it were, for
these reflections to pass, making it pos
sible for scenes to be imagined litre
which, to tlie persons involved, would
seem as safe from any one's scrutiny
as if they were taking place in the ad-
; joining house.
As we realized this, a look passed
between us of more than ordi
nary significance. Pointing to the
window, tlie inspector turned to a group
of waiters watching us rrom tiie other
side of tlie room and asked if it had
been opened that evening.
The answer came quickly.
“Yes, sir,—just before the—tlie—"
"In understand," broke in the inspector;
and. leaning over me. lie whispered;
“Tell me again exactly what you thought
you saw.”
But I could add little to my former
description.
“Perhaps you can tell me this," iie
kindly persisted. “Was tlie picture, when
you saw it, on a level with your eye, or
did you have to lift up your head niorder
to see it?”
“It was high up,—in the air, as it were.
That seemed its oddest feature.”
The inspector’s mouth took a satisfied
curve.
“Possibly I might identify tiie door
and passage, if I saw them,” I suggest
ed.
“Certainly, certainly,“ was his cheer
ful rejoinder; and, summoning one of his
men, lie was about to give some order
anew the vague sensation of shock and when his impulse changed, and he asked
expectation which seemed its natural ac
companiment, I became conscious of a
sudden conviction that tlie picture
Which had opened before me in the sup
per-room was tlie result of a reflection
in a glass or mirror of something ttien
going on in a place not otherwise with
in tlie reach of my vision; 1 reflection,
the importance of which I suddenly real
ized when I recalled at what a critical
moment it had occurred. A man in a
state of dread looking at his breast,
within five minutes of tlie stir and rush
of the dreadful event which had marked
this evening!
A hope, great as tiie despair in which
I had just been sunk, gave me courage
to drop my hands and advance impetu
ously toward the inspector.
“Don't speak, I pray; don’t judge any
of us further till you have heard vvliat
I have to say.”
In great astonishment and with an as
pect of some severity, he asked me what
I had to say now which I had not had
tlie opportunity of saying before. I re
plied with all the passion of a forlorn
hope that it was only at this present
moment I remembered a fact which
might have a very decided ibearlng on
this case; and, detecting evidences, as I
thought, of relenting on his part. I
backed up tin’s statement by an entreaty
for a few words with him apart, as tlie
matter I had to tell was private and
possibly too fanciful for any ear but
liis own.
He looked as if he apprehended some
loss of valuable time, but, touched by
the involuntary gesture of appeal with
which I supplemented my request, he
led me into a corner, where, with just
an encouraging glance toward Mr. Dur
and. who seemed struck dumb by my
action, I told tlie inspector of that mo
mentary picture ■which I had seen re
flected in what I was now sure was
some window pane or mirror.
“It was at a time coincident, or very
nearly coincident, with the perpetration
of tlie crime you are now investigating,”
I concluded. “Within five minutes after
ward came tlie shout which roused us
all to what lia<l happened in tlie alcove.
I do not know what passage I saw or
what door or even what figure; but
the latter, I am sure, was that of the
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“Very good!" It was the inspector
who spoke; I could not have uttered a
word to save my life. “Perhaps you
will now feel that you owe it to tiiis
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“Mrs. Fairbrother handed them to me.”
“Handed them to you?”
"Yes, I hardly know why myself. She
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“*fiiey were rolled up."
“Did you see her take them off?’’
“Assuredly.”
“And roll'them up?”
“Certainly.”
“After which she passed them over to
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“Not Immediately. She let them lie In
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I assured him, in some surprise, that I
was far from being- an adept in that di
rection, but that possibly r might man-
;ige a rough sketch; whereupon he pull
ed a pad and pencil from his pocket and
requested me to make some sort of at
tempt to reproduce, on paper, my mem
ory of this passage and tlie door.
My heart was beating violently, and
the pencil shook in my hand, but i knew
that it would not do l'or me to show any
hesitation in fixing for all eyes what, un
accountably to myself, continued to be
perfectly plain to my own. So I en
deavored to do as lie bade me, and suc
ceeded, to some extent, for lie uttered a
slight ejaculation at one of its features,
and, while duly expressing liis thanks,
honored me with a very sharp look.
“Is this your first visit to this house?”
lie asked.
“No: I have been here before.”
“fn tlie evenftig, or in the afternoon?”
“in the afternoon.’’
“I am told that the main entrance is
not in use tonight.”
"No. A side door is provided for occa
sions like the present. Guests entered
there find a special hall and staircase,
by which they can reach the upstairs
dressing rooms, without crossing the main
■hall. Is that what you meanT”
“Yes, that is what I mean.”
I etared at him in wonder. AVliat lay
back of s=uch questions as these?
“You came in. as others did, by this
side entrance,” lie now proceeded. “Did
you notice, as you turned to ,to upstairs,
an arch opening into a small passageway
at your left?”
“I did not,” I began, flushing, for I
thought I understood him now. “I was
too eager to reach tlie dresslBg room to
look about me.”
“Very well,” lie replied; “I may want
to show you that arch.”
Tlie outline of an arch, backing the fig
ure we were endeavoring t® identify,
was a marked feature in the sketch I
■had shown him.
“Will you take a seat near l>y which
I make a study of this matter?”
I burned with alacrity to obey. There
was something in liis air and manner
whicii made me almost buoyant. Hail
my fanciful interpretation ©f what I
had seen reached hint witli the conviction
it had me? If so, there was hope—hope j
for tlie man I loved, who had gone in
and out between curtains, and not
through any arch such as lie had men
tioned or f liad described. Providence
was working for me. I saw it in the
way the men now moved about, swing
ing tlie window to and fro, under tlie
instruction of the inspector, manipulat
ing the lights, opening doors and draw
ing back curtains. Providence was work
ing for me, and when, a few minutes
later, I was asked to reseat myself in
1 my old place at the supper table and
take another look in that slightly de
flected glass. I knew that my effort had
met with its reward, and that for the
second time I was to receive the impres
sion of a place now indelibly imprinted
On my consciousness.
“Is not that it?” asked the inspector,
pointing at the glass with a lost look at
the imperfect sketch I had made him,
and which he still held in his hand
“Yes,” I eagerly responded. All but
tlie man. He whoso figure I see there
is another person entirely; I see no re
morse, or even fear, in his lpoks.
“Of course not. You are looking at
the reflection of one of my men. Miss
Van Arsdale. do you recognize tlie place
now under your eye?” .
•’I do not. You spoke of an arch in
the hall, at the left of tiie carriage en
trance, and I see an arch in the window-
pane before me, but— ’
“You are looking straight through the
alcove—perhaps, you did not know that
another door opened at its back into the
passage which runs behind it. farther
on is the arch, and beyond that arch the
side hall and staircase leading to the
dressing rooms. This door, the one in
tlie rear of the alcove, I mean, is hidden
from those entering from tiie main hall
by draperies which have been hung over
it for tiiis occasion, but it is quite
visible from the back passageway, and
there can lie no doubt that it was b> its
means tlie man. whose reflected image
Jas. Britton,”Cured"of "Rapture by”C. E. Brook*, you saw, both entered and left tlie alcove.
Ion- that aiflr person, rich or poor, can buy, and 1 It is an important fact to establish, and
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send it to yon—you wear it. and if it doesn’t satis- c .. - ,
fy you send it back to me and 1 will refund your tlie aid you have given us in tills
money. Tlfat is tlie fairest, proposition ever mane 1 ter ”
b >’ a rupturo specialist. The banks or any respon- Then . as I continued ot stare at him ir
siblc citizen m Marshall will tell you that is the I ‘ , ... in
way 1 do business—always absolutely on tiie square, j my elation and sill prist, lie atultu, in
Here is what Mr. .las. Britton, a prominent man-1 yuick explanation:
,,f “c. Ur E. °Br™k“sq. 1 Le,,r T Sir;- I have | “The lights in tlie alcove, and in the
ruptured six years and have always had trouble i several parlors. aTe all nung; with shades,
with it till I Kot your appliance. It is very easy l as voll must perceive, but the one ii*
£o wear, tits neat and snug, and is not in the way I ‘ V rtll -irr-h v-orv bright
at any time, day or night. In fact, at times I did the hall, bejond the arch, is \ety brig. .
not know I had it on. It. just, adapted itself to j which accounts for the distinctness Of
the f*hai»e of tiie body and clung to the spot no! t i, is double reflection. Another thing—
master what position I was in. It would lie u j * . .
veritable God send to the unfortunate who suffer • and it is a very interesting point it would
from rupture, if all could procure the Brooks Hup- i have been impossible for tiiis reflection
tme Appliance and wear it. They certainly would t b not i ce able from where you sit, if
never regret it. My rupture is all healed up and 1 1J . ... . .. , , ' . .
nothing ever did it but your appliance, .las, Brit-1 the level ot the aicove flooring had not j
ton.” been considerably higher than that of the
If you liave tried most everything else, come to , finnv Kiri for this freak of the
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every condition was propitious at the I
moment to make tiiis reflection a possible j
occurrence — even tlie location and
width of tlie several doorways
and *he exact point at which the •
portiere was drawn aside from the en- j
trance to^the above."
“It is wonderful” r cried, "wonderful! ” j
Then, to his astonishment, perhaps, l !
asked if there was not a. small door ot |
communication between the passageway
back of tlie aicove and the large central i
hall.
"Yes," lie replied. "ft. opens just be- !
yond the fireplace. Three small steps |
lead to it."
"I thought so," ;f murmured, but more '
to myself than to him. In my mind l j
was thinking how a man if he so wished
could pass from the very heart of this I
assemblage into the quiet passageway, ■
and so on into the alcove, without at- :
tractingr very much attention from his ;
fellow guests. I forgot that there was |
another way of approach even less no- i ,- , .- .. . - ■ .
tioeable—that by the small staircase run-
nmg up beyond the arch directly to tue - - - - - -
dressing rooms.
That no confusion may arise in any
one’s mind in regard to these curious ap
proaches. I subjoin a plan of this por
tion of the lower floor as it afterward
apeared in the leading dailies.
"And Mr. Durand?” I stammered, as
I followed the inspector back to the room
where we liad left that gentleman. "You
will believe his statement now and look
for this second intruder with the guilt-
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lo me with the request that I slioulc
procure for him a diamond of superior
beauty. He wished to give it to his
ily hanging head and frightened mien?'’ i wife, and he wished it to outshine any
“Yes,” he replied, stopping me on the , which could now be found in New York,
threshold of the door and tyJking my This meant sending abroad—an expense
hand kindly in his, “if—(don't start my
dear; life is full of trouble for young
and old. and youth is the best time to
face a sad experience) if he is not him
self the man you saw staring in fright-
lie was quite willing to incur on the sole
condition that the stone should not dis
appoint him when he saw it, and that it
was to be in his hands on the eigh
teenth of March, his wife's birthday.
ened horror at his breast. Have you i Never before had I had such an cuppor-
not noticed that he is not dressed in all
respects like the other .gentlemen pres
ent? That, though he has not donnea
his overcoat, he lias put on, somewhat
prematurely, one might say. tiie large
silk handkerchief he presumably wears
under it? Have you not noticed this,
and asked yourself why?”
I had noticed it. I had noticed it from
tlie moment II recovered from my faint
ing .fit, but T liad not thought it a mat
ter of sufficient interest to ask, even or
myself, his reason for thus hiding his
shirt front. Now I could not. My fac
ulties were too confused, my heart too
deeply Shaken by the suggestion which
the inspector’s words conveyed, for me
to he conscious of anything, but tlie de
vouring question as to what I should
do if, by my own mistaken zeal, I had
succeeded in plunging tlie man I loved
yet deeper into the toils in which he had
become enmeshed.
The inspector left me no time for the
settlement of this question. Ushering
me back into the room where Mr. Du
rand and my uncle awaited our return
in apparently unrelieved silence, he
closed the door upon’ the curious eyes
of tlie various persons still lingering in
the hall, and abruptly said to Mr. Du
rand :
“The explanations you have been
pleased to give of the manner in widen
this diamond came into your possession
are not too fanciful for credence if you
can satisfy us on another point which
has awakened some doubt in the
mlind of one of my men. Mr.
Durand, you appear to have pre
pared yourself for departure some-
whate prematurely. Do you mind re
moving that handkerchief for a moment ?
My reason for so peculiar a request will
presently appear.”
Alas, l’or mv last fon t hope! Mr. Dur
and, with a face as white as the back
ground of snow framed hv the uncur
tained window against which he leaned,
lifted his hand as if to comply with the
inspector's request, then let it fall again
with a grating laugh.
“I see that I am not likely to escape
any of the results of my imprudence,"
tunity for a large stroke of business
Naturally elated, I entered at once into
correspondence with the best known
dealers on the other side, and last week
a diamond was delivered to me which
seemed to fill all the necessary require
ments. I had never seen a finer stone,
and was consequently rejoicing in my
success, when some one, I do not re
member who now, chanced to speak in
my hearing of the wonderful stone pos
sessed by a certain Mrs. Fairweather
a stone so large, so brilliant and so
precious altogether that she seldom wore
it, though it was known to connoisseurs
and had a. great reputation at Tiffany's,
where it had once been sent for some
alteration In the setting. Was tills stone
larger and finer than the one I liad
procuer with so much trouble? If so.
my labor liad all been in vain, for my
patron must have known of this diamond
and would expect to see it surpassed.
“I was so upset by this possibility
that I resolved to see the je®'el and
make comparisons for myself. I found
a friend who agreed to introduce
me to the lady. She received
me very graciously and was
amiable enough until the subject of dia
monds was broached, when she imme
diately stiffened and left me without an
opportunity of proffering my request.
However, on every other subject she was
affable, and I found it easy enough to
pursue the acquaintance till we were al
most on friendly terms. But I never
saw the diamond, nor would she talk
about it. though I caused her some sur
prise when one day I drew out before her
eyes the one I had procured for my
patron and made her look at it. ‘Fine,’
she cried, ‘fine!’ But I failed to detect
any envy in her manner, and so knew
that I had not achieved the object set
me by my wealthy customer. This was
a woeful disappointment; yet. as Mrs.
Fairbrother never wore her diamond, it
was among the possibilities that In.
might be satisfied with the very fine gem
I had obtained for him, and, influenced
he oriel, and with a quick jerk bared I by this hope, I sent him this morning-
his shirt-front. j to request to come and see it tomorrow.
Imost
oom T
hear that Mrs. Fairbrother is present and
ms siiiri-iruiii. to request to come ana see it tomoi
A splash of red defiled its otherwise . Tonight I attended this ball, and al
uniform whiteness! That it was the red as soon as r enter the drawing roc
of heart’s Wood was proved by the , r __
shrinking look lie unconsciously cast at
it.
IV
EXPLANATIONS.
My love for Anson Durand died at
sight of that crimson splash—or I (
thought it did. In this spot of blood J
on tlie breast of him to whom I had j
given my heart I could read but one
word—guilt—heinous guilt, guilt denied
and now brought to light in language
that could be seen and read by all men.
Why should I stay in such a presence?
Had not the inspector himself advised
me to go?
Yes, but another voice hade me re
main. Just as I readied the door, An
son (Durand found his voice and I hoard,
in tlie full, (sweet tones I loved so well:
“Wait! I am not to be judged like
this. I will explain!”
But here the inspector interposed.
“Do you think it wise to make any
such attempt without tlie advice of
counsel. Mr. Durand?”
The indignation with which Mr. Dur
and wheeled toward him raised in me a
l'aint hope.
“Good God. .yes!” lie cried. “Would
you have me leave Miss Van Arsdale
one minute longer than is necessary to
such dreadful doubts? Rita—-Miss Van
Arsdale—weakness, and weakness only,
lias brought me into my present posi
tion. I did not kill Mrs. Fairbrother,
nor did I kno-syngly take her diamond,
though appearafiees look that way, as
I am very ready to acknowledge. I did
go to her alcove, not once, but twice,
and these are my reasons for doing so: I
About three months ago a certain well-
known man of enormous wealth came
is wearing her famous jewel. What
could you expect of me? Why, that T
would make an effort to see it and so
be ready with a reply to my exacting
customer when he should ask me tomor
row if the stone I showed him had its
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