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CA? | we 26 UNDER HIS THUMB. ‘Then you think he knows mae about the | crime?”’ ‘Lam convinced that he does. Jam positive that it was he who uttered the cry, ‘Waldron has killed himself,’ which was heard directly after the shot.’’ ‘‘He would not utter such a cry without a motive?’’ “That is what looks dark for him.’’ “Do you think he killed Mr. Waldron?’’ ‘‘Under other circumstances I should as soon think of suspecting the Governor of the State.’ “What is Dyer’s character?’’ “Hxcellent. He is temperate, a good compositor, faithful in all respects. He has a weakness for bully- ing the boy apprentices—and that is the only thing I have ever seen in him to dislike.”’ “Was he on good terms with Mr. Waldron?”’ ‘‘l have no reason to think otherwise.’ ‘‘When you first encountered him in the passage, did he appear agitated?”’ ‘‘He was calmer than the others.”’ ‘‘In case he committed the crime, could he have jumped out through the open window in the count- ing room, and afterward have made his way unob- served to the passage where you found him?’’ ‘‘He could not.”’ “Why not?” ‘‘Because I was near enough to have seen him.”’ ‘Then he certainly did not commit the crime.”’ ‘‘How are you so positive?”’ ‘Because the murderer escaped by the window.” ‘‘Perhaps he raised the sash as a pees: and then ran into the passage where I saw him.’ ‘“No, he did not. Some one leaped through the open window. The marks where the man struck -underneath the window were very plain. That isn’t GComicboo co