under the car, but he
was withdrawn before any harm was done, though the cars gave
a lurch at that moment which must have frightened him
exceedingly, for his face was white when he rose to his feet,
and when Harry offered to assist him again on to the train, he
refused to go and said he would return home and not attempt to
ride to Poughkeepsie that night.

"The gentleman, whom Harry now saw to be Mr. Stanton, an
intimate friend of Dr. Zabriskie, smiled very queerly at this,
and taking the Doctor's arm led him away to a carriage. Harry
naturally followed them, but the Doctor, hearing his steps,
turned and bade him, in a very peremptory tone, to take the
omnibus home, and then, as if on second thought, told him to
go to Poughkeepsie in his stead and explain to the people
there that he was too shaken up by his mis-step to do his
duty, and that he would be with them next morning. This seemed
strange to Harry, but he had no reasons for disobeying his
master's orders, and so rode to Poughkeepsie. But the Doctor
did not follow him the next day; on the contrary he
telegraphed for him to return, and when he got back dismissed
him with a month's wages. This ended Harry's connection with
the Zabriskie family.

"A simple story bearing out what the wife has already told us;
but it furnishes a link which may prove invaluable. Mr.
Stanton, whose first name is Theodore, knows the real reason
why Dr. Zabriskie returned home on the night of the
seventeenth of July, 1851. Mr. Stanton, consequently, I must
see, and this shall be my business to-morrow.

"Checkmate! Theodore Stanton is not in this country. Though
this points him out as the man from whom Dr. Zabriskie bought
the pistol, it does not facilitate my work, which is becoming
more and more difficult.

* * * * *

"Mr. Stanton's whereabouts are not even known to his most
intimate friends. He sailed from this country most
unexpectedly on the eighteenth of July a year ago, which was
_the day after the murder of Mr. Hasbrouck_. It looks like a
flight, especially as he has failed to maintain open
communication even with his relatives. Was he the man who shot
Mr. Hasbrouck? No; but he was the man who put the pistol in
Dr. Zabriskie's hand that night, and,