MARION'S UNCLE.

A Case for the Detectives.

By SYLVANUS COBB, Jos.

CHAPTER XIII

READY FOR THE INQUEST.

It was the lifeless body of Arthur Singleton which the landlord and his \ssistants had found in that chamber, lying prone upon the carpet, by the side of one of the large easy-chairs; and the open window, with its torn curtain, and a chair overturned near it, gave ample token that the assassin had made his hurried exit in that di-, rection. The landlord, Daniel Loomis by name, was the first to speak a sensible word. He pointed to the open Window, and called attention to the condition of the curtain and the over turned chair, and then he bade one of the strvants to step out upon the roof of the piazza and look sharply up and down the street.

The man did so, but his search was fruitless. Two men were passing the door, and two females were walking on the opposite side of the way j but he had seen no person in the distance. Meantime Loomis was down upon his knees for the purpose of lifting the fallen man's head. John Tyron, the servant who had heard the shots fired, and who had given the alarm, cried out against his master's movement, telling him he ought not to touch the body until the coroner had seen it. By this time three of the guests of the house, who roomed on that floor, together with two more servants, had entered the room, and it can be imagined that somewhat of a babel re sulted.

' I think that's the law, Mr Loomis,' kindly suggested one of the boarders. - I don't think I'd touch the body till the coroner comes. Have you sent for him V

■Go to thunder with your laws!' exclaimed the kind-hearted publican, looking up indignantly at his advisers. 'D'ye s'pose there's any laW in a Christian land to prevent me from seeing if the poor boy can have help ?' And, in spite of all opposition, Dan Loomis tenderly turned the bodyover, then drew up a hassock, and laid the wounded head upon it, and then he called the most sensible of the guests there present—a Mr Henry Pelham— to come to his assistance.

There was found a wound on the head, but it looked more like a gash made by an axe than it did like a bullet wound. Loomis was lifting the soaked and matted hair from the torn scalp when his hand was arrested by an ex clamation from , his • assistant, whose fingers had come in contact with flow ing blood somewhere about the bosom. Aye, there had been two shots fired, and there were two wounds. The host simply found that a bullet had pene trated the breast on the left side—in the region of the heart, he thought— and then he leaped to his feet. It Was not of the coroner, however, that he first thought, but of the doctor. ' Old Vanwert was the lad's chosen doctor.' he said. 'John, you know where he lives V •

'Yes, sir. It's only a little way on the next street.'

• Run ! Move nimbly now ! and bring him. Tell him just what is the matter; but—mark :—don't you let another soul hear a word of it.'

The servant promised, and departed, and when he had gone the pompous boarder suggested again that the coroner should be sect for immedi ately. 'Jason Dunker!' said the host, turning upon the officious meddler a frowning look, -don't you worry. The doctor's the man to send for the coroner. . You'd better go and see if you can't find the man that did this deed.— Hallo ! what's that V It was a pistol —a self-cocking revolver —lying on the floor directly under the open window. 'Oho!' tlie publican exclaimed, as he picked it up, ' this may tell us who is the murderer ! My soul 1 isn't it an ugly thing ?' And so it in truth appeared. It was one of those heavy, 'bull-dog,' self-cocking revolvers, of 44 calibre, and looked as though it had seen ser vice.

' Perhaps the owner's name is on it,' suggested Dunker. ' Let's look.' Loomis held it up towards the gas jet, and instantly his sharp eyes caught a name neatly engraved on the silver mounting of the breech. He read it, and quickly hid the weapon away. At that moment a servant, who had been sent to bring fresh water and sponges and towels, entered with his burden, and the astounded host seized upon the event as a cover for the pistol, which he had put safely away in an inner breast pocket. A few moments later two servants, who had been sent to see if they could track the assassin, entered, reporting, as Loomis had expected, that they had been able to discover nothing. Mr Dunker was holding forth upon the necessity of at once notifying the police, and of calling in the coroner, and had reached the point of intima ting that he should himself attend to that duty, when John Tryon entered, followedclosely^by our friend, Dr. Ulric Vanwert. Have you notified the police? shouted Dunker, determined not to be beaten from his ground. The old doctor glanced first at the prostrate form on the carpet, and then, at the irate Dunker. From him he looked to the indignaat host, and the ituation was as clear to his under tanding as though he had overheard

all that had transpired before he came in. ■My dear sir,' he said to the per sistent boarder,' you may rest easy. I have myself sent a messenger to the chief of police.' ' And the coroner V cried the irre pressible Dunker 4 'I will decide about that, my friend. Now give us room 1 Where is this poor fellow's bed V ■ It shall be ready in a few moments,' answered the landlord. He sprang to alarge horse-hair sofa that stood against one of the walls of the room, and threw it open, thus revealing a plump mattress, with sheets and a coverlet, of which materials a bed was quickly constructed. While this was being done John Tryon was sent to procure a rubber blanket. This was brought, and thrown over the bedding, after which the body was carefully lifted and ; placed thereon. Then, deftly aud coolly, Dr. Vanvert j went at his work. The wound of the scalp was quickly disposed of. It might have been stunning in its effect, but not mortal. The skull was neither penetrated nor fractured. The ball had struck just in the edge of the hair, on the left side, and had ploughed its way along the surface of the skull, and through the overlying tissue, for a dis tance of four or five inches. Satisfied that the bone of the cranium was intact, his attention was next turned to the wound of the breast. The clothing was removed, and the wound exposed* It was on the left side, between the second and third ribs, and not more than two inches from the breast-bone. Tho doctor gave one glance, and then turned to the landlord. *Mr Loomis, you may send for the coroner when you please.' - Then he is dead ?' *It looks very much like it. Ii you could look in behind that ugly hole and see what I see, you would not have to ask.' ■I know where the coroner lives,' cried Dunker; * and if he has gone to bed, I'll have him out.' 'Of whom do you speak?' asked Vanwert. « Why—Tom Little, of course.' - Well,—we won't have Tom Little just yet. Do you know where to find Jacob Andrews T •No.' * But t do,' said Loomis, - and so does Jack Tryon,' It was finally arranged than the ser vant, Tryon, should go in quest Of the coroner. The surgeon desired to make a thorough examination at once, and he wished the coroner to be present. The landlord was uneasy. Some thing on his mind troubled him. He looked from the doctor to his servant, and then at the meddlesome boarder, who had been at length in a measure repressed, but who was evidently on the gui vive for another manifestation. As John reached the door,.,with his hand upon the knob, the publican's face brightened. He allowed the man to open the door and pass out, and then quickly followed, the doctor start ing after him. Whether Vanwert had a further mission for his messenger, or whether he wished simply to know what was going on,did not appear. When Jason Dunker started to follow him, however, he put out his hand and waved him back.

'Mr Dunker, I wish you to remain here with the body.' There was an authority in the look and tone of the speaker, and in his whole bearing, that held the meddler in awe. It was as though a magistrate had said to him,—' At your peril, sir 1* At all events, he shrank back without a word. * Ah! Doctor Vanwert, I'm glad you've come,' said Loomis, as the sur geon appeared and closed the door be hind him. I wanted to ask Jack a question before he went • and, perhaps, give him a word of caution. I have a pretty direct notion of who fired those bullets, and I tliought Jack might have the same. How is it, Jack V '<0 ! dear sir!' the servant gasped, trembling from head to foot, 'Iknoio who fired 'em.' 'Hallo! What's that ? You know, do you f said tlie doctor, eagerly. 'Yes, sir. -I heard 'em bavin' a dreadful row. _Oor Mr Singleton was tellin' Mr Vernon to stand back—to : let him alone—not to touch him—* ' Vernon 1 Do you speak of Single ton's fellow-clerk f ' Yes, sir. Him it Was, sure as you. live!' • I cannot believe it! No, no— you are mistaken.' 'Doctor,' interrupted the landlord, with a swift glance around, at tlie same time putting his hand into an inner breast pocket and drawing some thing forth, -look at this. It was picked up from the floor, directly under the window through which the j doer of the deed made his escape. J Come out here to the light and look _tl it.' ;

They went to the end of the hall, where a gas-jet was burning, and there Vanwert took the object and held it to the light. It was a heavy revolver— a five-chambered weapon—two of the chambers of which had been dis charged ; and on the silver mounting of the breech he read the name—* Capt. Walter Vernon.'

' Just Heaven 1 it cannot be !' the old man exclaimed, looking from the pistol in his band to his two com panions. 'There has been some hocus-pocus in this^ But boy'—to the servant —'not a word of this to the coroner—not a syllable i Do you understand V

-Ah f put in Loomis. ' That was what I came out for. John, do yon mind what the doctor says. Just you tell Andrews what's been _one, and not a word more. If he asks yM who did it. tell him we don't know any thing about it. And that'll be true, for we don't hioio. Appearances there

maybe; but appearances can lie most wofully, as I hope they do in this case.' - Amen !' pronounced the doctor. John promised that he would do exactly as he had been bidden, and then went his way, and the physician returned to the horror-laden chamber, where they found the stout butler and one of the stable hands holding Mr Dunker from leaving tlie room. The doctor told them to let him go • and also told Dunker to go, in a tone that caused him to leave. When the meddlesome Dunker had gone, and the door had been closed and locked behind him, the doctor cast his eyes around for more light. • Before I venture to use the scal pel,' said he, * 1 must try the probe. Can't you give me more light V ** Plenty of it, sir/ replied the ready landlord, moving quickly as he spoke. Depending from the centre of the ceiling was a double gas burner. From one of the branches he removed the porcelain globe ) then he placed by the; side of the bed a light table, and then brought from the bureau a drop-light with a long, flexible tube. This he at tached to the burner overhead, and set the stand to which the burner was fixed on the table, and lighted it. There were now in the room six persons-^-the landlord and the doctor, the butler and the groom, and the steward and the bar-tender. The last mentioned was an intelligent young man, who had devoted a year and a little more to the study of anatomy and medicine, having thought at one time of becoming a physician. Vanwert knew him Well, and readily accepted his services when offered. 'What do you think of it, Mr Morton V Warren Morton, the young man's name was. •I think,' he answered, when he had examined the wound, 'if the bullet took a direct course, that it must have touched the heart —pro- bably the left auricle. I only wonder that there is not a greater flow of blood.' 'You are right as to the heart, I think. At all events it must have been a quick and painless death. As for the blood, that is flowing internally. If syncope resulted immediately, as I think it did, there may have been but little blood set free. From the look of the face I am led to think that such was the ease. Now, my boy, if you will take that bowl and sponge, and stand by—' The doctor's direction to his assist ant was cut short by the tramp of feet without, followed by the trial of the knob, and then a smart rap on tlie door. Loomis answered the summons, and found in waiting the coroner, Jacob Andrews, accompanied by one of his assistants, Topman, by name,— and three others,- —Messrs. Wallace and Earle, and our old friend Stephen Wilmot. The servant Try on had also returned with them. The coming of Stephen Wilmot was a surprise. Mr Andrews had met him near his own residence, and had of course informed him of what had happened. Dr. Vanw6rt,however, did not appear satisfied with this ready explanation. What had the staid and sober banker been doing on the street at that hour? Moreover, he was not habited in his usual garb. He might, from his appearance, have been fresh from a masquerade, with the masque only removed. Wilmot saw his trouble at a glance, and pre sently found opportunity to whisper in his ear: 'Not a word! I will explain by-and-by.' Then he approached the bed, and looked upon the handsome face of his clerk. His powerful frame was shaken to its centre, and a groan of tlie deep est agony burst from his lips. •O,! this is dreadful! If I could have-foreseen! Heavens! how could 1 1 Vanwert !-•is he dead 1 Is there no hope?' ' Dear man, look at that!' replied the doctor, laying a finger upon the edge of the wound in the breast. 'Heaven rest his soul. It is in a line with, the heart, is it not ?' > \ " Yes. We think so.' ■

- Has everything been done that can be done ? Ulnc,—you are a wizard. Put forth your powers on this poor, boy! That is not the face of death. The nose is not pinched. And the lips—look at them! * •My dear Wilmot, it is easily ac-i counted for. Syncope was the instant result of two shots—an titter paralysis of every nerve and muscle—of every ! tissue—-of the body. That stroke on : the head was terrible, though not -di rect enough to fracture tihe skull; and j this lump of lead through the nerve centre of the heart was like a stroke of lightning. At this point the coroner,, who had i been conversing apart with the land lord, interrupted them. Be came to tlie bedside, and laid Ms hand on the i cold brow, and looked at the wounded bosom. Then to the physician he said: | 1 Doctor, _ suppose we may consider the man dead V 'Certainly, sir. Only by a miracle can he be brought to conscioiisness ever; •again. I Wouldn't take my oath that: be is dead ; but, by all the known laws' -of animal life, tinder such &n infection; "as this, fee ought to be!' % Then, sir, if you have no objection, why may we not proceed to an inquest , at once 1 Here are a sufficient number to organise a jury; and, if We think there may be more to learn before making up a verdict, we can adjourn to another time.' The ■doctor said it was immaterial to, him. He wished to find the bullet— to discover its exact course, —but he could do that while t_e inquest was going on. -I Wjjteh you would,' returned. Andrews. -From remarks made by Mr Loomis, there is pretty strong evidence in the case now present, and I would like to take it legally before; any particulars shall have slipped Irom' the tninds of the witnesses.'

' How V exclaimed Wilmot, looking from the face of the landlord to that of the coroner ; his o,wn face, the while, presenting a picture of deep anxiety. 'Do you know who did it"f Do tl oli know, Loomis V Tlie host seemed surprised that a comparative stranger should address him So familiarly; but he remembered that the gentleman had been the youth's employer, aud his great anxiety would account for it. He answered that he did not know, but he had good reason for a very strong suspicion. 'Go on,' said the banker, with a pleasant nod to the coroner. * You can imagine that I am somewhat anxious.' The old doctor was evidently de sirous of speaking a word privately in Wilmot's ear, but the opportunity was not offered. He was at that moment speaking aside with the coroner, and shortly thereafter the latter proceeded to the organising of the jury. He found five good and reliable men, without calling tin Mr Wilmot or either of those who would be wanted as witnesses. There were the three friends who had come in his company, together with the butler and groom of the inn. Mr Morton, the bar-tender, he got to officiate as clerk. To these the usual oath was administered, and 1 they proceeded at once to business. Stephen Wilmot was curious to know how the suspicions of the landlord and his servant had been aroused, but of the direction of those Suspicions he did not dream.

(To be Continued.)

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