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CIIAI'TKIl I.
The- gentlemen of the Jury retired to
consider their verdict. The foreman took
hi plneo nt the liend of the tnhle. Ills
colleiiBiies sented themselves on either
Hide of him. Then, there- fell upon that
nNHvinbly of men n silence, never known
iimoiiK iin nssemlily of women the silence
which proceedH from n general reluctance
to he the person who speaks first.
"Oentlenien," he began, "hnvo you
formed ntiy decided opinion on the ense
thus fnr? The prisoner walling our ver
dict Ih the Honornlile Roderick Wester
Held, younger brother of the present Lord
f,e l!nxtue. He Ih charged with fully dint
ing nwiiy the Hrltlsh Imrk .Toll" .lermlnun
for the purpose of frnuduleiitly obtaining
n Hluire of the Insurnnre money; mill fur
ther, of possessing hlniHelf of certiiln Bra
zilian diamonds, which formed part of the
cargo. In pliiln words, here In u gentle
iiiiiii horn In the higher ranks of life no
tuned of being 11 thief. He further ap
pears to lmve outriiKed the feelings of his
family liy marrying n hiiriunlil nt n public
house. I-'nini thnt miiineiit his pnreutH
turned their backs on him, with the one
merciful exception of the liend of the fnni
lly. Lord Le HiiHiine exerted his tnlluenic
with the Admlrnlty mid ohtnlned for IiIh
brother mi iippolntiueut to n ship. All the ,
witnesses agree that Mr. Westerlleld
thoroughly understood Ills profession. If
I IIIH .infill,, llllwi-ir.iw.M, ill.-. in.n mi. .ii. 1
he could have controlled himself, he might
lmve risen to very high rank In the navy.
He iimrreled with one of his superior
olllcers "
"Under strong provocation," said n
member of the Jury.
"Under strong provocation," the fore
man admitted. "The prisoner challenged
the olllrer on duty to light a duel, and, re-,
celvlug a contemptuous refusal, struck !
him on the quarter deck. As a mntter of i
course, Mr. Weslerlleld wnH tried by (
court mnrtlal and was dismissed from the ;
service. At my lord's earnest request the ,
owners of the John .lermlnun, trading be
J ween Liverpool and Itlo, took Mr. WeHt
erlleld on trial as llrst mate. In a teiiiH'st
off the coast of Africa the enptalu was
washed overboard, and the llrst mate she-1
ceeded to the command. Ills senmnnshlp .
mid courage saved the vessel, under cir
cumstances of danger which paralyzed the !
efforts of the other olllcers. He was con
tinued In the command of the ship."
There the foreman paused to collect his
Ideas. '
"After a certain term of service, gentle
men," he dually resumed, "the prisoner's
merits appear to have received their re
ward, lie was presented with a share In
the ship. With Improved prospects he
milled from Liverpool on his last voyage
to llrnr.ll; ami no one, his wife Included,
bad the faintest suspicion that he left
ICngluuil under circumstances of serious
liecunlary embarrassment, the result of
lietllug on horse racing. When he left
Itlo on the homeward voyage, there Is no
ort of doubt that he was returning to
ICuglnnd to face creditors whom he wiih
unable to pay."
"In plain Kngllsh." said a Juryman,
"1011 are for llndlugthe prisoner guilty."
"In plain Kngllsh," the foreman rejoin
ed, "I refuse to answer that question."
"Why?"
"IJecauHe It Is no part of my duty to at
tempt to Inlluence the verdict."
"You hnvo been trying to Inlluence the
verdict, Hlr, ever sluie you entered this
room, I appeal to all the gentlemen pres
ent." The patience" of the long-suffering fore
tnnn fulled him at last, "Not another word
thnll pass my lips," he said, "until you
find the prisoner guilty or not guilty
among yourselves and then I'll tell you If
I agree to your verdict."
He folded Ids arms and looked like the
Image of a man who Intended to keep his
word.
In the meantime nothing was snld or
done. Helpless silence prevailed In every
part of the room.
"Why doesn't son?body begin?" cried
nu Impatient Juryman. "Have you all
forgotten the evidence?"
This startling question roused the Jury
to a sense of what was due to their oaths,
If not to themselves. Some of them recol
lected the evidence In one way and some
of them recollected it In another. The
llrst man who spoke hrgau at the middle
of the story told by the witnesses In court.
"1 urn for acquitting the captain, gentle
men; he ordered out the boats and saved
the lives of the crew." "Ami 1 am for
finding him guilty, because the ship struck
a rock in broad daylight, and In moderate
weather." "I agree with you, sir. The
evidence shows that the vessel was steer
ed dangerously near to the laud, by direc
tion of the captain who gave the course."
"Come, come, gentlemen! let us do the
captain Justice. The defense declares that
he gae the customary course, mid thnt It
was not followed when he left the deck.
As for Ids leaving the ship In moderate
weather, the evidence proves that he be
lieved he saw signs of a storm brewing,"
"Yes, yes, all very well; but whnt were
the facts? When the loss of the ship was
reported, the Mnisilliin authorities sent
'ine to the wreck, on the chance of saving
the cargo; and, days afterward, there the
ship was found, Just as the captain and
crew had left her." "Don't forget, sir,
that the diamonds were missing when the
miIvois examined the wreck," "All right,
tint that's no proof (bat the captain stole
the diamonds; ami, before they hud saved
half the cargo, a storm did come on, and
break the vessel up, so the poor man was
only wrong hi the matter of time after
all," "Allow mo to remind you, gentle
men, that the prisoner was deeply In debt,
mid, therefore, had an Interest In stealing
the diamond." "Walt a little, sir. Fair
play' a Jewel. Who was In charge of
the deck when the bblp struck? The sec
ond mate. Ami what did the second mate
do, when he heard thut Id owner had de
cided to prosecute? He committed sui
cide! 1 there no proof of guilt In that
act?" "You are going n little too fust,
dr. The coroner's Jury declared that the
second mate killed himself In a state of
teiuKrury liibaulty."
"Suppose we try u show of hand?" waa
nuggcstcd. "Gentlemen who Hud the pris
oner guilty will p!eao bold up their
ami."
COCW k
Votes were at once registered, including
the rote of the foreman, One Incompre
hciiHlble ninu nhstnlned from expressing
IiIh HentimentH even by a sign. He snt im
movable, with cloned eyes. The quick
witted foretiiini had long since suspected
him of being Hlmply the stupidest person
present with JiiHt cunning enough to con
ceal his own dullness by holding his
tongue. After n heated conference among
themselves they decided on Heciirlng unan
imity of opinion by submitting to the ar
bitration of thlH one Independent member
present. "Which way dbes your view of
the verdict Incline, sir? Guilty or not
guilty?"
The eyes of the Hllent juryman opened
with the slow and solemn dilution of the
eyen of nu owl. "Guilty," he answered,
and shut IiIh eyen ngaln.
An unutterable sense of relief pervaded
the meeting. Knmltles were forgotten:
mid friendly looks were exchanged. With
one nccord, the Jury rose to return to
court. The prisoner's fate wns sealed.
The verdict was guilty.
The low hum of tnlk among the persons
In court censed when the Jury returned
to their places. Curiosity now found Its
center of attraction In the prisoner's wife
who had been present throughout the
trial.
.Mrs. Wenterlleld was n showy woman.
ier commnuillng figure was llnely robed
, , , , , - ,ii....
' ,In.rk c,l,)rM! her profuse light hair hung
over her forehead in little clusters of ring
lets; her features, llrmly but not delicately
shaped, were on a large scale. No out
ward betrayal of the wife's emotion re
warded the public curiosity; her bold light
gray eyes sustained the general gaze with
out llluchlng. To the surprise of the
women present, she had brought her two
young children with her to the trial. The
eldest waH a pretty little girl of ten year
old; the second child, a boy, sat on his
mother's knee. It was generally observed
that Mrs, Westerlleld took no notice of
her eldest child.
The Judge took his seat, and the order
was given to bring the prisoner up for
Judgment. The surgeon of the prison en
tered the witness box, and, being duly
sworn, made his medical statement.
The prisoner's heart had been diseased
for some time past, ami the malady had
been neglected. He had fainted under the
prolonged suspense of waiting .for the ver
dict. The swoon had proved to be of such
a serious nature that the witness refused
to answer for consequences if a second
fainting lit was produced by the excite
ment of facing the court mid the Jury,
Under these circumstances the verdict
was formally recorded. Once more the
spectators looked at the prisoner's wife.
She had risen to leave the court. It was
observed, when she retired, that she held
her boy by the hand, and left the girl to
follow. A compassionate lady near her
offered to take care of the children while
she was absent. Mrs. Westerlleld answer
ed quietly and coldly: "Thank you their
father wishes to hco them."
The prisoner was dying; nobody could
look at him mid doubt It. His eyes opened
wearily when his wife ami children ap
proached the bed on which Jie lay helpless
tho wreck of a grandly made man, The
girl stood nearest to him; he looked at her
with a faint smile.
The poor child understood-him. Crying
plteously, she put her arms round his neck
and kissed him. "Dear papa," she snld,
"come home and let me nurse you."
The surgeon, watching the father's face,
saw a change In him which the other per
sons present had not observed. Ah Ills
wife brought the child to him, the surgeon
whispered to her, "If you have anything
to say to him, be quick about it!" She
shuddered; she took Ids cold hand. Her
touch seemed to nerve him with new
strength; he asked her to stoop over him.
"They won't let me write here," he whis
pered, "unless they see my letter. Lift
up my left arm. Open the wristband."
She detached the stud which closed the
wristband of the shirt. On the Inner side
of the linen was a line written In red let
tersred of the color of'blood. She saw
these words: "Look In the lining of my
trunk."
"What for?" she asked?
The fading light In his eyes flashed on
her a dreadful look of doubt. Ills Up
fell apart In the vain effort to answer.
Ills last sigh fluttered the light ringlets
of her hair us she bent over him.
Tho surgeon pointed to her children.
"Take the poor things home," he said;
"they have seen the last of their father."
Mrs, Westerlleld obeyed In silence. She
had her own reasons for being In a hurry
to get home. Lenviug the children under
the servant's care she locked herself up
In the dead man's room, and emptied hi
trunk of the few clothe thut had been
left In it.
The lining which she was now to exam
ine was of the customary material, and of
the usual striped pattern In blue and
white. Her lingers were not BiUllclently
sensitive to feel anything under the sur
face, when she tried It with her hand.
Turning the empty trunk with the Inner
side of the lid toward the light, she dis
covered on one of the blue Btrlpes of the
lining u thin little shining stain which
looked like a stain of dried gum. After a
moment's consideration, she cut the gum
med Hue with a penknife. Something of a
white color appeared through the aper
ture. She drew out a folded sheet of
paper.
It proved to be a letter In her husband'a
handwriting. An Inclosure dropped to the
floor when she opened It, iu the shape of
a small slip of paper. She picked It up.
The morsel of paper presented letters, fig
ures and crosses arranged In lines, and
mingled together In what looked like hope
less confusion.
CIIAITKK II.
Mrs. Westerlleld laid the Incomprehen
sible slip of paper aside, and, In search of
an explanation, returned to the letter.
Here again she found herself In a atate of
perplexity. Directed to "Mrs. Roderick
Weatertleld," the letter began abruptly,
without tho customary form of address.
Did It mean that her husband waa angry
with her when he wrote? It meant that
he doubted her.
In theae term be expressed himself i
"I write to you before my trial takea
place. If the verdict goea in my favor,
I shall destroy what I hare written. If
I am found guilty, I must leave it for you
to lo whnt I should otherwise have done
for myself.
"The undeserved misfortune that has
overtaken mo began with the arrival of
my ship iu the port of Rio. Our second
mate asked leave to go on shore and
never returned. What motive determined
him on deserting I am not able to say. It
was my own wish to supply hti place by
promoting the best seaman on board. My
owners' agents. overruled me, and appoint
ed a man of their own choosing.
"What nation he'd belonged to I don't
know. The name he gave was Beljames,
and he wns reported to be a broken-down
gentleman. Whoever he might be, his
manner nnd his talk were captivating.
Everybody liked him.
"After the two calamities of the loss of
the ship and the disappearance of the dia
mondsthese last being valued at live
thousand pounds I returned to England
by the first opportunity that offered, hav
ing Beljames for a companion.
"Shortly after getting back to my house
In London, I was privately warned by a
good friend that my owners had decided
to prosecute me for willfully casting away
the Hhlp, and for having stolen the missing
diamonds. The second mate, who had
been In command of the vessel when she
struck on the rock, was similarly charged
aiong with me. Knowing myself to be In
nocent, I determined, of course, to stnndJ
my trial. My wonder wns, wnat ei
James would do. We had separated In
Cornwnll, nnd had not met since.
"On the voynge home Beljnmes told me
thnt n legacy had been left to him; being
n small freehold house nnd garden In St.
John's Wood, London. While my mind
was running on this recollection I was
told that a decent elderly woman wanted
to see me. She proved to be the landlady
of the house In which Ucljatne lodged;
nnd she brought an alarming message.
The man wns dying, nnd desired to see
me. I went to him Immediately.
"Heljnmes had heard of the Intended
prosecution. How he hnd been made
uware of It death left him no time to tell
me. The miserable wretch had poisoned
himself whether In terror of standing his
trlai or In remorse of conscience, It Is not
any business of mine to decide. Most tin
iucklly for me, he llrst ordered the doc
tor and the Inndlndy out of the room
mid then, when we two were alone, owned
that he hud purposely nltered the course
of the ship, and had stolen the diamonds.
"Having cased his mind by confession,
ho gnve me tho slip' of pnper which you
will Hnil Inclosed In this.. 'There Is my
note of the place where the dlnmonds arc
hidden,' he said. Among thetmnny Ignor
ant people who know nothing of ciphers,
I nm one, nnd I told him so. 'Thnt's how
I keep my Hecret,' he snld; 'write from
my dictation, mid you shall know whnt It
means. Lift me up first.' As I did It he
rolled his head to and fro, evidently In
pain. Hut he managed to point to pen,
Ink nnd paper on n table hard by, on
which his doctor hud been writing. I left
him for n moment to pull the tabic nearer
to the bed, and In thnt moment he groan
ed nnd cried out for help. I run to the
room downstairs where the doctor was
waiting. When we got bnck to him he
was In convulsions. It was all over with
Beljnmes.
"The lawyers who nre to defend mo
have tried to get experts, as -piey call
them, to interpret the cipher. The ex
perts have all failed. They will declare,
If they arc called as witnesses, that the
signs on the paper nre not according to
any known rule, and nre mark made at
random meaning nothing.
"As for nny statement on my part of the
confession made to me, the law refuses to
hear It except from the mouth of a wit
ness. I might prove that the ship's, course
was changed, contrary to my directions,
after I had gone below to rest, If I could
titid the man who wns steering at the time.
Heaven knows where that man Is.
"On the other hand, the error of my
prist life, nnd my being In debt, arc cir
cumstances deud ugalust me. The law
yers seem to trust almost entirely In a
famous counsel, whom they have engaged
to defend me. For my owu part, I go to
my trial with little or no hope.
"If you are now my widow, and If you
moy have nny love left for my memory,
never rest until you have found somcbqdy
who can Interpret these curious signs. Do
for me, I say, what I cannot do for my
self. Recover the diamonds; and. when
you restore them, show my owners this
letter.
"ICls the children for me. I wish them,
when they nre old enough, to read this
defense of myself and to know that their
father, who loved them dearly, died un
Innocent man. My good brother will take
care of you, for my sake. I have doue."
Mrs. Westerlleld took up the cipher once
more. She looked at it as if it wns a living
thing that defied her. "If I am ever able
to read this gibberish," she decided, "I
know what I'll do with the diamonds!"
CHAPTKIt III.
,h??rOT
release from the obligation of wearing
widow's weeds.
The conventional gradations In the out
wnrd expression of grief which led from
black to gray, formed no part of this af
flicted lady's system of mournlug. She
laid her best blue walking (Irons and her
new bonnet to match on the bed, and ad
mired them to her heart's content. Her
discarded garments were left on the floor.
"Thank heaven, I've done with you!" ahe
said, und kicked her maty mourning out
of the way as b1u udvuuced to the fire
place to rlug the bell.
"Where Is my little boy?" she asked,
when the landlady entered the room.
"He's down with me In the kitchen,
ma'um; I'm teaching him to make a plum
cake for himself."
"I want you to take care of him while I
am away, lly the bye, where' Syd?"
The eldest child had been christened
Sydney, In compliment to one of her fath
er's rem ale relatives. With a look at
Mrs. Weatertleld which expressed Ill-concealed
aversion, the lundlady answered:
"She's up In tho lumber room, poor child.
She says you aeut her there to be out of
the way."
"Ah, to be sure, so I did."
"There's no fireplace In the garret,
ma'am. I'm afraid the little girl must be
cold and lonely."
It was useless to plead for Syd Mrs.
Weatertleld was not listening. Her habit
ual neglect of her eldest child was known
tq every person la the bouse.
Mrs. Westerfield's destination waa the
public house, In which she had been once
employed as a barmaid. Kntering the
place without hesitation, she sent In her
card to the landlord. He opened the rr-
lor door himself, and Invited her to walk
"You wear well," he said, admiring her.
"Have you come here to be my barmaid
again?"
"Do you think I am reduced to that?"
she nnswered.
"Well, my dear, more unlikely things
have happened. They tell me you depend
for your Income on Lord Le Basque and
his lordship's death was In the newspapers
last week."
"And his lordship's lawyers continue my
allowance."
Having smartly set the landlord right
In those words, she had not thought It
necessary to add that Lady Lo Basque,
continuing the allowance at her husband s
request, had also notified that It would
cease if Mrs. Westerlleld married again.
"You're a lucky -woman," the landlord
remarked. "Well, I'm glad to sec you.
What will you take to drink?"
"Nothing, thank you. I want to know
if you hare heard anything lately of
James Bellbridge." .
The landlord was a popular person In
his own circle; not accustomed to rcstrnln
himself when he Bnw his way to a Joke.
"Here's constancy!" he snld. "She's sweet
on James after having Jilted him twelve
years ago!"
Mrs. Westerlleld rose with dignity. "I
nm accustomed to be treated respectful
ly," she replied. "I wish you good-morn-lug."
The ensy landlord pressed her back Into
her chnlr. "Don't be a fool," he said. I
"Tunics Is in Loudon; James is staying In
my house."
Mrs. Westerfield's bold grny eyes ex
pressed enger curiosity mid Interest. "You
don't mean that he Is going to be bnr
mun here ngnln?"
"No such luck, my denr; he Is n gentle
mnn nt Inrge, who pntronIr.es my house."
Mrs. Westerlleld went on with her ques
tions. "Has he left America for good?"
"Not he! .Tamos Bellbridge Is going
back to New York, to open a saloon. He's
In England, lie says, on business. It's
my belief thnt he wants money for this
new venture, on bad security. His only
chance of getting his bills discounted is
to humbug his relations down in the coun
try." "When does he come back?"
"He comes back to-morrow."
"Will you give n message to James?"
"I'll do anything for a lady of fortune."
"Tell him to come and drink ten with his
old sweetheart to-morrow nt six o'clock."
"He won't do It."
"He will.
With that difference of opinion they
parted.
(To be continued.)
Not nit Mtnplil aa Jto Soomcd.
It wiih nu old mnn In Sweden so
runs the talc un told In Short Stories
who gave to n stranger nn iinswer that
was wiser than It appeared. Tho stran
ger, ono of n prospecting party search
ing for gold, hud wandered away from
tho rest, to find himself nt lust with n
'air piece of iiimrtTz ns n rownrd for Ills
pains, In u region ho knew nothing of,
with no guide, nnd night coming on.
"Friend," he asked of an old man
smoking In his doorway, "how long will
It take mo to walk to the next town?"
The old man eyed the speaker quizzi
cally. "Walk on," ho Bald, 'with n wavo of
IiIh hnnd Iu the right direction.
"Yes, I know which road; but how
long will It take me to walk there?"
asked tho stranger again.
"Walk on," repeated the smoker,
stolidly.
"But can't you tell me how long It
will take mu to reach the town?; per
wlsted the other, Impatiently.
"Walk on," n third time directed tho
old man, and the stranger did walk ou,
Inwardly anathematizing the( stupidity
of tho smoker.
"young man," called the resident,
when the stranger had gotic a few
yards.
, He turned Impatiently.
"I Just wanted to tell you, thut If you
keep up that gait you'll get there Iu
half an hour."
"Why couldn't you sny so before?"
demanded tho stranger, hotly.
The old man removed tho pipe from
his mouth, blew u volume of smoke
skyward, ami answered, coolly: v
"How did I know how fast you could
walk?"
Ti eating II iiisolf.
Tho Parisian critic, M. Jules Claretie,
narrates In the Athenaeum uu nnuislug
story of the elder Dumas:
At tho height of the great novelist's
voguo ho could not turn out books fust
enough to satisfy his clamoring pub
lishers, and It became necessary for
hi in to employ collaborators, to whom
he sketched tho plot, perhaps, leaving
them to do the rest. Among the most
r H- i,r, ?r?
who Is still living and writing In Paris
nt nu ndvnnced age,
Thus It came about thnt Monsieur
Meurlce was the author of ono of tut
most amusing novels of Dumas, "Les
Deux DInncs." Dumas when travel
ing found this novel Iu n hotel and
opened It to pass away tho time. Ho
began trading It seriously, got interest
ed Iu It and was amused. Presently
some oue came to tils room aud found
him with "Les Deux DInncs" la his
hand.
"What are you doing there, dear mas
ter?" "I am rending," said Dumus, "a novel
of my owu which I did not know, and
which pleases me vastly!"
It was Dumas who said when left to
himself, "I am never bored when I
have my own company." It Is ensy to
aeo that he was uot more so when ho
had that of others and did uot kuow it.
Couldn't He I'o.ltlTC.
lleggy (indignantly) So your father
8ifld I dldu't kuow enough to go lu
when It ralued. I hopo you contradict
ed hint?
Dolly Ob, yes. But, of course, I
couldn't say for certain, Rebby, be-1
cause I have uever seen you out In a
storm. Judge.
The Amerlcuu people have much to ,
bo thankful for. No other country on
the globe can produce six varieties of
weather Iu ten mtuutes.
All men are born Ignorant aud lota ol'
then n4ver.ucl to outgrowing It
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KELLEY-CLARKE CO.
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PORTLAND
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Clamps and Uprights.
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AND LAWN FENCE.
Portland Anchor Fence Co.
7-ia NIcolal St., PORTLAND, Oregon.
Going Company
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Hollowware and
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Handled by All First
Class Dealers...
Royal Steel Ranges Are
the Best and Cheapest
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PORTLAND, OREGON
Our Specialty
First-Class
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In all that pertains
to this line
We will supply you and fit up your home
or office with everything m electric light
ing, telephones, electric bells, etc, in a
scientific and expert manner, at, fair and
reasonable prices. Anything in our line
that you wish done satisfactorily, tele-,
phone, send by mail, or call at
Western Electrical Works,
305 "Washington St.,
PORTLAND, ORE.
"THE PERFECTION
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