constable, and Harry soon found himself in
Leverett Street Jail. Strange as it may seem to my young friends, he
was not very miserable there. He was innocent, and he depended upon
that special Providence which had before befriended him to extricate
him from the difficulty. It is true, he wondered what Julia would say
when she heard of his misfortune. She would weep and grieve; and he
was sad when he thought of her. But she would be the more rejoiced
when she learned that he was innocent. The triumph would be in
proportion to the trial.

On the following day he was brought up for examination. As his name
was called, the propriety of the court was suddenly disturbed by an
exclamation of surprise from an elderly man, with sun-browned face and
monstrous whiskers.

"Who is he?" almost shouted the elderly man, regardless of the dignity
of the court.

An officer was on the point of turning him out; but his earnest manner
saved him. Pushing his way forward to Mr. Wake, he questioned him in
regard to the youthful prisoner.

"Strange! I thought he was dead!" muttered the elderly man, in the
most intense excitement.

The examination proceeded. Harry had a friend who had not been idle,
as the sequel will show.

Mr. Wake first testified to the facts we have already related, and the
lawyer, whom Harry's friends had provided, questioned him in regard to
the prisoner's character and antecedents. Edward Flint was then
called. He was subjected to a severe cross-examination by Harry's
counsel, in which he repeatedly denied that he had ever borrowed or
paid any money to the accused.

Mr. Wade was the next witness. While the events preceding Harry's
arrest were transpiring, he had been absent from the city, but had
returned early in the afternoon. He disagreed with his partner in
relation to our hero's guilt, and immediately set himself to work to
unmask the conspiracy, for such he was persuaded it was.

He testified that, a short time before, Edward had requested him to
pay him his salary two days before it was due, assigning as a reason
the fact that he owed Harry five dollars, which he wished to pay. He
produced two of the marked half dollars, which he had received from
Edward's landlady.

Of course, Edward was utterly confounded; and, to add to his
confusion, he was immediately called to the stand again. This time his
coolness was gone; he crossed himself a dozen times, and finally
acknowledged, under the pressure of the sk