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"The clerk will read the verdict," said Goldberg. Julius stood up and cleared his throat. "We, the jury," he read, "impaneled in the case of Hiram W. Holladay, deceased, do find that he came to his death from a stab wound in the neck, inflicted by a pen-knife in the hands of a person or persons unknown." I Dine with a Fascinating Stranger
It was he who rather insisted on her going out; for he was proud of her, as he'd a right to be." "Yes," I said: for all this fitted in exactly with what I had always heard about the family. "There were no other relatives, were there?" "None at all, sir; both Mr. Holladay and his wife were only children; their parents, of course, have been dead for years." "Nor any intimate friends?"
"I have a light over my desk, sir, and there's another on the wall." "So you could not see your visitor's face with absolute clearness?" "No, sir; but quite clearly enough to recognize her," he added doggedly. "Yet you thought her looking pale and worried." "Yes, sir; that was my impression." "And when she asked for Mr. Holladay, did she use the words 'my father, as your evidence would suggest?"
Holladay is said to have received one million five hundred thousand dollars cash, and three hundred thousand dollars in express company stock for his interests.
The coming of the Holladay baby, the decline and death of old Mrs. Bird, the narrow escape of Sammy Tew from drowning, and the thorough old-fashioned thrashing that Mary Trimble gave her oldest son for taking a little boy like Sammy out beyond the "heads," all these things sank deep into the consciousness of the new Rachael.
Warwick Lester, the brilliant young attorney who achieved such a remarkable victory before Coroner Goldberg yesterday afternoon, in the hearing of the Holladay case, and, of course, took occasion to discuss with him the latest developments of this extraordinary crime. Mr.
Besides, she won't be offended when she comes to herself. The question is, how to find her most speedily." "The police, probably, could do it most speedily," I said; "but since she can be in no immediate danger of any kind, I rather doubt whether it would be wise to call in the police. Miss Holladay would very properly resent any more publicity " "But," objected Mr.
It might be, indeed, that the younger one was beginning already to repent her share in the conspiracy there could be no question that it was she who had struck down Holladay in his office that she had even refused to go farther in the plot, and that her companions had found it necessary to restrain her; but this seemed to me too exceedingly improbable to believe.
Martigny was standing in the middle of the floor, fairly foaming at the mouth, shrieking out commands and imprecations at two women who cowered in the farther corner. The elder one I knew at a glance the younger my heart leaped as I looked at her was it Miss Holladay? No, yet strangely like. He saw their startled eyes turn past him to us, and swung sharply round.
It was the "Record of Adoptions." The Veil is Lifted In a moment we were hurrying along the street, in the direction the notary had pointed out to us. Martigny was already out of sight, and we had need of haste. My head was in a whirl. So Frances Holladay was not really the daughter of the dead millionaire! The thought compelled a complete readjustment of my point of view.
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