I wish to give the son of my old friend a chance." The man whom Coroner Perry thus addressed, leaned back in his chair and quietly replied: "You're right; not because he's the son of your old friend, a handsome fellow and all that, but for the reason that every man should have his full chance, whatever the appearances against him.

Personally, I have no fear of my judgment being affected by his attractions.

I've had to do with too many handsome scamps for that.

But I shall be as just to him as you will, simply because it seems an incredibly brutal crime for a gentleman to commit, and also because I lay greater stress than you do on the two or three minor points which seem to favour his latest declaration, that a man had preceded him in his visit to this lonely club-house,--a man whom he had himself seen leaving the grounds in a cutter just as he entered by the opposite driveway." "Ah!" came in quick ejaculation from the coroner's lips, "I like to hear you say that.

I was purposely careful not to lay emphasis on the facts you allude to.