Ruby's Reward — page 347: what you’re looking at

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And yet he felt strangely disquieted; something had evidently transpired to relieve the minds of the other side, and to make Mrs. Gordon desirous of avoiding her own counsel and him; and his keen dark eyes roved from one face to another with rest- less though eager, searching glances. But with all his fear he was wholly unprepared for the thunderbolt when it fell. Mrs, Gordon was the first witness called. “Mrs. Gordon,’ said the prosecuting attorney, “will you state the facts, as you know them, of the robbery which was committed in Mr. Carpeuter’s house on the niglit of the twenty-fifth of June?” Mrs. Gordon turned at once to the judge, upon this, and said, in a clear and distinct yoice: “Tt will not be necessary for me to do so, your honor, a8 my property was restored to me last eyen-— ing, and it has been ascertained that Mr. Richardson was in no way connected with the affair.” | This statement created quite a stir in the room. Edmund Carpenter grew deadly white, aud his eyes blazed with a dangerous light. : The prosecuting attorney turned upon her with astonishment and indignation, and for a moment ap- peared wholly unable to utter a word. At last he said, sternly : : : “Tf such is the case, I beg to inquire why I was not informed of the fact?” : : “Because, your honor,” replied Mrs. Gordon, still addressing the judge, ‘for certain reasons, which I am not at liberty to explain, I pledged myself not to mention the matter until I could make the statement here.” At this Edmund Carpenter whispered something in the ear of the prosecuting uttorney, and the latter remarked, with some excitement: “This case seems to have been rather summarily taken out of my hands, your honor, but I shall, nevertheless, demand that the stolen property be produced to prove the assertion to which we have just listened.” comicbooks.com pO PR I EE ee GEO Ea et LOS eee anal