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He took it, and examined it through
a magnifying glass which stood ou
the bench.
"Ls there an expert in handwriting
in court ?" he said. ''But, Indeed, I
do not think we shall need him."
And he passed the note across to
the jury.
The twelve men bent their heads
over it, and murmured among them-
selves : and meanwhile the marquis
and Gerald were talking earnestly.
Gerald nodded at last as if con-
vinced or persuaded, and, addressing
the judge, sald
" My lord, my client desires to avail
himself of the recent alteration in
the criminal aw ; he will snake a
statement."
The judge. Iooked down at the
marquis' face, now working with an
agitation that was doubly impressive
after his long -sustained calm.
" I have my own opinion of the
wisdom of that alteration," he said ;
"but the jury will, of course, receive
any statement the prisoner may
make."
The marquis looked at Elaine as if
he wished her to listen to every
word ; then, addressing the judge,
said :
My lord, I desire to say that the
evidence given by all tie witnesses
excepting Fanny Inchley, is, so far
as I am concerned, perfectly true.
I was hi the grounds ; I was near
the bridge on the night of Captain
Sherwin's death. And I saw and
heard him witb—Miss Delaine. I saw
him give her a letter. You have
heard that letter read; but at that
time, and until now, I had no sus-
picion that tbe letter I saw him give
to Miss Delaine was a letter
stolen from my desk. " Yes,'
he continued, more calmly, and
speaking slowly that every word
might be heard by the intent
and breathless crowd, "that let-
ter was mine! It was written to me
by, my wife--"
Elaine nstarted, and covered her
eyes with her hands. 'And ho paused
a moment, his eyes dw.ellitag upon
her bent head with sad tenderness.
"It was the last letter she wrote
to me. And it was not written in
1888, but in 1Sa5, a few weeks before
her death !':
kaainas hands fell from before
her face, and ;she tarned It, white add
amazed, toward him.
"Yes," he repeated slowly, and in
a low voice. "My wife, the writer
of that letter, died at the place
at which it was written, three weeks
afterward. That is my statement,
my lord • whether it be true or
false can be proved by the registrar
of Thorncliffe, where my wife was
staying at tile time of her death.
There is one person in court who
can ,.corroborate my statement in
some measure." He looked across at
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my wife',s funeral."
The young fellow, one of the party
' from Loudon, upon whom the mar-
quis' eyes were fixed, inclined his
head gravely. The crowd just glanced
' at him, then stared again at the
marquis.
! "It will be asked why the marriage
• was kept: secret," he went an in a
lower voice. "It was an unhappy one.
My wile--" He paused. and let his
hand fall slowly on the rail of the
. dock. "Ween a time or misery hag
a young man who sat on the benches
behind the jury box. "Lord Cleiweli.
passed and been burled, one does not
desire to dig it from the grave.
I had wronged Miss Delaine
by keeping my marriage secret from
her. Here, and now, I ask her for-
giveness for my—selfishness and want
—of trust in her love and long suf-
ferance. I had resolved to tell her
that night. The night when, as I
thought—like a fool !—that she was
false to me !"
Elaine started, and the blood surged
over her white, wan face.
" False!" broke from her lips.
Yes!" said the marquis, as if
answering her. " With shame I ow>a
it. I thought her false ! And so, my
lord, I show how utterly unworthy
I was to win so sweet, so true a
woman." His voice broke ; a murmur
that was like a srrb rose from the
women in the crowd.
" I thought," went on the marquis,
as if resolved to make full confes-
sion, and inflict upon himself in all
its bitterness and completeness the
pu'n!shntent he deserved, "I thought
she had met Captain Sherwin, that
—sire loved him still, and that the
letter was one of a compromising
nature which she desired to regain
from him. When we met in
the 'drawing -room afterward— Miss
Dolaine and I—it was with that cruel
and ma.d delusion that I spoke and
listened to her. I see now, by the
light of that letter, how she must
have misunderstood me. My lord,.
each thought the other• guilty. She
that I had a wife at present liv-
ing, I that she eti11 loved the man
who had asked her to be hie wife!"
The crowded court drew a Jong
breath. The judge sat motion -
lose, his long, thin face absolutely!
impassive.
"I ask, I pray lien .to forgive me!"
wont on the marquis, his eyes rest-
ing on tho beautiful face. "I wronged
her cruelly! Tliat she should deem
me guilty was but reasonable... How
should she suspect that any human
being could be vile enough to alter
the date of that letter ? How should
she guess that the wife who wrote
Itwas dead, and that I was free ?"
He paused and sighed.
"T,hat is all, my lord. I will not
insult these gentlemen," he waved his
hand toward the jury, "by asking
them to give no credence to the
statement of the woman, Fanny
Inchley. There are some lies which
recoil, even as they, are uttered, upon
the lipsawhich spawi4 them. Miss
Detaino has told you all she knows;
it is all 1 You may, have your doubts
as to my innoconce4 you cannot
have the shadow of a doubt of hors."
There was a murmur of applause.
The judge held up his hand.
"Have you finished?" he asked.
sollein nly,.
The markluis made a motion of
assent. The sergeant sat. looking
hard at Gerald. The erowd grew
restless in the moment of two of
suspense; then it was known that
some one was approaching , the wit.
nese box, a.nd as Luigi was re-
cognized a thrill of excitement vi-
brated through the . people.
The sergeant rose but the judge,
motioned to him to remain seated.
"Ix' you wish to give evidence?,
he asked.
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Luigi turned bus sightless eyes to-
ward the bench.
"I do."
The judge signed to the clerk to
administer the oath; and Luigi, 1n
a low, clear • voice, and to the
amazement of the marquis, gave an
exact account of all of which he
was cognizant on that awful night,
his tone perfectly steady until he
described the scene between him and
the marquis, in which the latter
expressed his determination to sac-
rifice himself, if need be, to save
Elaine from even the suspicion of
haviug committed the crane. Then
Luigi's voice faltered, and an an-
swering sob rose from Elaine's
parched throat, and was echoed by
every woman in court.
"And you say," said th'e judge,
that you heard a woman pass you
in the shrubbery, even after you
h'ad heard the cry ?"
"Yes, my lord, and," he went on
slowly, "I thought it was Miss De-
laino."
"You thought it was Miss Delainel"
said the judge, gravely. "Wily ?"
"Because, my lord, as the woman
passed I noticed the scent of new -
mown bay--"
Elaine, who had been sitting with(
her cheek on her hand, blushed and
looked up.
"It w,a,s a scent Miss Delaine used;
but silo had not used it that night,
or for some days before."
"Bo careful!" said the judge. "A.re
you speaking from hearsay ?"
1'No, my lord," responded Luigi, ib
clear tones that seemed to vibrate
through the court. "Lady Scott and
her maid will prove that Miss Do-
laino Lost the bottle of perfume from
her room on the Thursday previous."
"It may have been some other
scent," said the judge.
Luigi smiled sadly. '
"My lord, I am blind," he said sig-
nificantly, "Dy Leaven's law of com-
pensation, the blind mat's senses of
hearing and of touch and smell are
more acute than those of hie fellows
who onjo;i God's great boon—sight!
It was tho scent I have named. I
lvavo never smelt it 'before miss
Elaine's visit, and twice only since."
"When ?" asked the judge, amid
an intense silence.
"Two days ago, my lord, when
lFanny Inchley stood talking to Mr.
Locke, Mr. Saunders and myself in
the shrubbery°f
Gerald Locke started; the crowd
stirred excitedly
In rapid tones Luigi described the
scene.
"Nay, when the perfume wasewaft-
ed toward me it came, like a reve-
lation. The woman whose handker-
chief was perfumed with tate new-
molwrn. hay was the woman who had
rushed past me that night, who had
dropped the dagger Which the mar -
was picked up ! It was . the woman
Saha had killed Charles Sherevlu i"
Intense silence for a m.oment",
then the judge said, slowly, sol-
emnly:
"Do you forget that there were
othertvvo persons
hex whenyou n tired he standing
"No, my lord. No 2" responded
Luigi promptly. "One was the de-
tective who has charge of this case
against my dear, dens friend. He
shall say whether he used the new -
mown hay. The other was Gerald
Locke ; it was not his handkerchaef
that bore the scent. I borrowed it
of aim—it is here," and he drew it
from his pocket.
"It was passed to the jury and
the judge.
" The woman who stole that
letter stole that scent "and it is
she who should stnndabere, and not
the Marquis of Nairne !" and he
lifted his band and pointed to tbe
dock,
A roar, sharp and swift, like the
sudden bay of hounds, rose Irom•the
crowd. The weber shouted for silence;
the policemen pushed the excited
mass this way and that ; an indes-
cribable scene of confusion ensued;
and in 'its midst stood the marquis,
calm and composed again, his eyes
fixed an (Elaine, as if lee saw her and
her only.
Silence was at last restored, then
the sergeant rose. In a masterly.
speech he used every word that had
been said as so much evidence
against the marquis.
"In the whole coarse of my exper-
ience," he said, gravely, "I have nev-
er known !a mare intricate and com-
plex case; but it is my duty to ask
a verdict from the jury. For now,
mark, we have the motive for the
crime. Who can doubt that the pri-
soner, maddened by, the loss of the
woman he loved, slew the man who
had separated her from him ? For
the evidence of the witness, Fanny
Inchley, I care nothing. What
She said she has said to screen
herself and , actti:ated by spite.
To Luigi Za,ntl's far fetched
theory I attach no value. Whether it
was Miss Delaine or Fanny Inchley
who passed bin in the shrubbery is of
little consequence. The person who
dealt that fatal blow must have been
the prisoner in the dock, for it was
he alone who could have desired the
death of the man he confesses lee re-
garded as his rival and the destroyer
of his happiness ; the man who had
revealed the secret of the former
marriage."
Point by point he went over the
evidence against the marquis, and as
he proceeded the silence grew more
Intense, and as he sat down a sound
like a moan rose from the crowd.
Gerald Locke was white with, re-
pressed emotion when he got up.
"I call no witnesses, my lord," he
said. "I have no speech to make. Tae
witnesses have spoken for me. I do
not call Lady Scott to prove that the
bottle of scent was missing—stolen;
that Miss Delaine had not used it for
days previous to the fatal one. I have
not to defend her innocence ; no one
doubts it," and as he raised his voice
a murmur of applause broke from the
crowd. "It is for my client, the pris-
oner, I alone am concerned. Had I
ever for a moment doubted his inno-
cence of the crime with which lie is
charged, the evidence would have dis-
pelled that doubt from my breast, as
it must have dispelled it from yours.
I leave his fate in your hands, to full
and serene confidence of an acquit-
tal:"
He sank back, and the judge began
to arrange his notes.
"albe summing tip will do it," mut-
tered one lawyer to another.
It took an hour ; it was ex-
haustive, impartial. Only once did
the grave. solemn voice grow
quicker with the heat of righteous
indignation, and that was when he
spoke of Lacly, Blanche's share in the
tragedy.
"Na words of condemnation that I
can utter can, I imagine, add to
the sense of shame which must be
crushing that miserable lady," he
said. "Conduct so base, so unwoman-
ly in its calculating cruelty and sel-
fishness, has seldom been revealed.
But that she herself confessed it,
convicting herself from her own lips,
I should have found it hard to be-
lieve in a 'meanness so revolting and
incredible. Whoever was guilty of
the deed of blood, it may be eaid
that, but for the action of Lady!
Blanche, the murder of the unfor-
tutate man would not have ,been
committed. Let that reflection ,be
her punishment, a punishment so aw-
ful that 1 ;will hot, dare pot, add
to( it"
A shriek rose as the last words
dropped from his stern lips, and Lady!'
Blanolre was carried out of the
court,
The summing up eras over. The
jury left the box ;• the judge rose
slowly, and wearily, and passed
through the door at the back
of the betach ; the hum and •buzz
of the crowd followed the silence in
which every, word of the judge's bad
been listened to.
A warder touched the marquis on
the shoulier. He turned, and as he did
so looked 'toward Elaine. She rose.
trembling in every limb, and stretch-
ed out her arms to him, and be stop-
ped, and seemed as if about to stretch
out his to grasp her hands ; but the
warder hurried him away, and May
drew her down beside her, and, sob-
bing, strove to comfort and soothe
her.
Gerald went round to the poor old
major, but could say nothing, do no-
thing, but lay a. sympathetic band
upon the old man's shaking shoulder.
Lady Dorman, Mrs. Bradley, and
others came round Elain,e and begged
her to get thein take her away. But
she could ,only shake her head. and
pang, "No. no, no 1"
The suspense was terrible, almost
unendurable. Weeks, mouths, seemed
to have elapsed einem the jury had
left the box. Would they never come
back ? • ,i
The sergeant, taking snuff inces-
santly, stared quietly before him, re-
gardless of the scowling glances shot
at him by the buzzing crowd.
Saunders, standing beside him. took
out his watch now . and again 'and
looked anxiously towards the door.
"That's not the way the jury come
in," at last said the sergeant, grimly.
Saunders swore under his breath.
The perspiration was standing In big
drops on his forehead.
'The jury ! No!" he uttered hoarse-
ly. "I'm waiting for--" Fie stopped.
The sergeant smiled grimly.
"It ,seems to me you have 'aeon
waiting for something all through
the cage," he said, sarcastically.
Saunders glanced up at him.
"That's true enough," he retorted.
"But don't you le hard, Mr. Leslie.
You've never had such a case as this
iiefore. "
"'Nor ever want to have again,"
snapped the famous lawyer. "Hush,
here they come."
Amidst a dead silence the jury filed
into the box; the judge was sum-
moned and entered, his cadaverous
face perfectly impassive and expres-
sionless in its intense calm; and a
moment later the marquts stood
once more in the dock.
The clerk rose and put the awful
question in due form:
"Guilty or not guilty?"
Guilty or not guilty ! The words
fell on Elaine's tortured ears, rang
on her aching heart.
The foreman rose.
" Not guilty, my lord."
A cheer that seemed to Oaks the
worm-eaten timbers of the old court
house rose from the parched throats,
a cheer which drowned the words
in which the fudge calmly told the
marquis that he was a prisoner no
longer, but a free man ; which
drowned the faint cry which leaped
from Elaine's white lips, as s11e rose
with outstret"lied hands.
The marquis stood for a moment as
if bewildered ; then he sprang over
the dock and seemed about to rush
to Elaine; then he stopped, as if
some bitter memory had arrested
him, and the next moment he was
surrounded by the crowd making
wild dashes for Ills hand, and, failing
that, excited attempts to touch him,
as if words were powerless to convey
their delirious joy and satisfaction.
. (To be Continued.)
Dr. George Wyld, in :has "Notes of
My Life," gives a charming sketch
of Prof. Blackie, of:wham' he writes
that mentally lets popularity was
due to Ms affectionate, loving and
perfectly truthful nature, his free
and outspoken, but never bitter,
'speech., and his habit of frequently
bursting into song, a. custom• soine-
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