the beds on which you were sleeping. It took me half
an hour to make you turn over so I could do it. George Waters
is my counsel, to whom I have committed my case. He will
arrange the evidence. Unless you eat your own words, you will
sit beside him and ask the jury if they believe the case is
made out beyond a reasonable doubt, for I know better than
you the weight of your character. I shall be in jail by
breakfast-time.

MALCOLM.

At the bottom of the note was a well-drawn hand with spread fingers
at the end of a man's nose.

When all the officers had returned, dropping in one by one, towards
morning, they were somewhat surprised and relieved upon beholding
Malcolm. He informed them that it would be all right if they would all
appear at his trial and laugh for him.

At the trial, Mr. Burchard, care-worn and nervous, made his
appearance. Mr. Waters conducted the testimony for the defence. Mr.
Burchard inquired of him what testimony Malcolm relied upon, and was
answered that no testimony whatever was to be introduced, but he would
rely altogether upon the lack of testimony on the part of the
government. A cold shiver ran down Burchard's backbone. The question
of guilty or not guilty turned upon the identity of the mat previously
spoken of, which, it was asserted, Malcolm threw away as he ran. The
watchman testified positively to the fact, but it was in the night,
and he might have been mistaken. Mr. W. H. B. testified generally as
to the robbery, and recognized the mat as probably the one made by his
daughter, although he could not positively make oath to the fact. As
the case turned upon the testimony of Miss B., I give the whole of the
cross-examination.

_Question by Mr. Waters._ You have said that you _know_ this mat to
have been the work of your own hands, and that you made it
for a particular purpose. If you please, what was that
purpose?

_Answer._ I had presented me on Christmas a fine statuette
of Samuel, which I admired so much that I worked this mat
with great care upon which to place it.

_Q._ And did you work it from a pattern?

_A._ Yes, sir.

_Q._ And have you ever seen others like it?

_A._ Yes, sir, three, but not in this city.

_Q._ And where did you get the pattern?

_A._ From a friend in Philadelphia.

_Q._ Now, if you have seen other mats like this, how do you
know, of your