But I gathered from things he dropped that Sir Horace had found out that he was a friend of Miss Fanning's and didn't like it.

He produced a jemmy which he had found at Fanning's flat, and said that it fitted the marks on the window at Riversbrook which had been forced on the night of the 18th of August.

" "Was that on your first visit to Miss Fanning's flat in Westminster after the prisoner had sent her to Riversbrook to tell you he wanted to see you?"

The evidence of Hill was that he arrived at Fanning's flat in a state of great excitement.

Yet it was necessary for the defence to prove that, in order to prove that the plan was not drawn at Fanning's flat by Hill under threats from Birchill, but that Hill had drawn it at Riversbrook, and that he gave it to Birchill in order to induce him to consent to the proposal to break into the house.

He asked them to accept it as evidence not only that Sir Horace Fewbanks was dead when the prisoner broke into the house, but that he was dead when Hill left Riversbrook at 7.30 p. m. to meet Birchill at Fanning's flat.

With an ingenuity which did credit to his imagination, he put before them as his theory of the crime that a quarrel took place between Sir Horace Fewbanks and Hill at Riversbrook, that Hill shot his master and then went to Fanning's flat so as to see that Birchill carried out the burglary as arranged, and at the same time found Sir Horace's dead body, and thus directed suspicion to himself.

Fanning's evidence might be true as far as it went, but it would not in itself prove that the prisoner was innocent.

Then he went to Fanning's flat and told Birchill that Sir Horace had returned.

He went to Doris Fanning's flat in Westminster to see Birchill.

" Faintly he heard the grind of the wheels, felt the fan's breath on his cheek, then all was lost in unconsciousness.

He turned his head to every possible angle, and cocked his ears to every conceivable elevation, and rubbed his nose against Fan's, and barked softly, in every imaginable degree of modulation, and varied these proceedings by bounding away at full speed over the rocks of the beach, and in among the bushes and out again, but always circling round and round Fan, and keeping her in view!

Fanning's part in the mystery of the stolen jewels of Mrs. Bancroft, the mother of Jess and Jimsy, will likewise be probably held in memory by those who perused that volume.

" But in spite of Fanning's protestations Roy could not help feeling a sensation of mistrust and suspicion toward the youth.

Evidently Fanning's policy was one of conciliation and he meant to press it to the uttermost.

Fanning's eyes glistened, "I guess it is.

Mr. Fanning's wardrobe.

Mr. Fanning's wardrobe.

Those respectable sergeants of Robinson's, Ludlow's, Cruger's, Fanning's, etc.once hospitable yeomen of the countrywere addressing me in language which almost murdered me as I heard it.

But instead of going to Fan's house, he went to his own.

If we come to an agreement, I will take you to Fan's house.