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Even the coroner showed sudden signs of emotion, and sat staring at the bowed form and pale countenance of the man before him, with a peculiar look of surprised compassion, which could not fail of producing its effect, not only upon the young man himself, but upon all who saw him. "Mr. Harwell," he at length inquired, "have you anything to add to the statement you have just made?"
"I'm very glad, Out," said the latter. "Won't it help you with the team?" "It will, my discerning friend. It will send me to New York next month to represent Harwell. And Lapham says I must go to Lakewood for the open tournament. Oh, little Outie is some pumpkins, my lad! It was quite the most wonderful young match to-day. Jenkins led all the way to the fifteenth hole.
"There will be just one more score," predicted the knowing ones as they buttoned their ulsters and overcoats up at the throat and crouched along the side lines, like so many toads. "But who will make it I'm blessed if I know!" Then Harwell lined up along the fifty-five-yard line, with the ball in their possession, and the south goal behind them. And Yates scattered down the field in front.
"Harwell?" he ejaculated easily. The quick blush rising to my face gave an involuntary assent. "I see no reason why we shouldn't speak of him," he went on; "that is, if there is anything to be gained by it." "His testimony at the inquest was honest, you think?" "It has not been disproved." "He is a peculiar man." "And so am I."
He felt a lump growing in his throat, and to keep down the tears that for some reason were creeping into his eyes, he let drive at a ball that came bumping toward him and kicked it so hard that Selkirk had to chase it half down the field. "Rah-rah-rah, Rah-rah-rah, Rah-rah-rah, Harwell! Harwell! Harwell! Rah-rah-rah, Rah-rah-rah, Rah-rah-rah, Harwell!"
Harwell has notes and memoranda in plenty," she exclaimed, "and can give you all the information necessary. You will have no difficulty; indeed, you will not." "But cannot Mr. Harwell himself do all that is requisite? He seems to be a clever and diligent young man." But she shook her head. "He thinks he can; but I know uncle never trusted him with the composition of a single sentence."
By what means could I reach her without deserting my post, or make away with her without exciting fresh suspicion? The problem seemed insolvable; but Trueman Harwell had not played the part of a machine so long without result. Before I had studied the question a day, light broke upon it, and I saw that the only way to accomplish my plans was to inveigle her into destroying herself.
Her late disagreement with her uncle, and evident estrangement from him, as testified to by Mr. Harwell. The mysterious disappearance of one of the servants of the house. The forcible accusation made by her cousin, overheard, however, only by Mr. Gryce and myself. Her equivocation in regard to the handkerchief found stained with pistol smut on the scene of the tragedy.
Harwell and himself had gone up and together tried both doors, and, finding them locked, burst open that of the library, when they came upon Mr. Leavenworth, as he had already said, sitting at the table, dead. "And the ladies?" "Oh, they followed us up and came into the room and Miss Eleanore fainted away." "And the other one, Miss Mary, I believe they call her?"
He had grown manlier, more earnest in tone and attainments, and had apparently shaken off his old habit of weak carelessness as some insects shed their skins. He, too, was to enter Harwell the coming fall, a fact which strengthened the bond between the three youths. One resolve was uppermost in Joel's heart when he began his last year at Hillton, and that was to gain the Goodwin scholarship.
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