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pose; but shall adhere to a plain statement of the facts, in every particular, as they successively discovered themselves to me. That it will prove an entertaining tale I do not promise, but that it will be a curious and interesting one I feel sure, and especially so to those who by profession are brought in contact with crime in its various phases. CONTENTS I.--A SOLILOQUY II.--A GAME OF CARDS III.--A TRAGEDY IV.--THE SUSPECT V.--THE INQUEST VI.--THE INQUEST CONCLUDED VII.--AN EVENING AT THE CLUB VIII.--THE PROSECUTION AND THE PRISONER IX.--A CLUE AND A CONFERENCE X.--THE TRIAL XI.--THE TRIAL CONCLUDED XII.--AN EPISODE AND A DINNER XIII.--THE TRUTH AT LAST XIV.--THE DEATH OF WINTERS A MASTER HAND CHAPTER I A SOLILOQUY On a Monday evening in January, 1883, I had returned comparatively late from work in the District Attorney's office in New York, and was in my rooms at the Crescent Club on Madison Square, corner of Twenty-sixth Street, making a leisurely toilet for dinner, when a note was brought me from Arthur White. In it he asked me to join a few mutual friends at his rooms on West Nineteenth Street off Fifth Avenue later in the evening for supper. He named the men--Gilbert Littell, Ned Davis, and Oscar Van Bult--who were to join him at euchre before supper. This was a favorite pastime with them, and I was bidden to come early, if I wished, and look on. I did not play cards myself; not because of any scruples on the subject,--I had knocked about, a bachelor, long enough to take most things in a man's life as they come,--but because I did not care for games of any sort. I was, however, by my friends considered an unobjectionable onlooker--rather a rare reputation to enjoy, I may mention,--probably mine because I did not take sufficient interest in the play to either advise or criticise. It was not unpleasant, however, to sit by in White's attractive quarters and drink and smoke from his excellent sideboard. So having nothing better to do, I sent back word I would come, and getting into my evening clothes, went down to my dinner. It was not often I dined alone, as dinner to me was the occasion of the day and I deemed it incomplete, no matter how excellent the meal, without some congenial companion; but this evening I was later than usual, and so found no one available. Ev
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