Watching for some sign of recognition, Mr. Dunbar’s heart was fired with jealous rage, as he marked the swift change of the prisoner’s countenance; the vanishing of the gleam of hope, the gloomy desperation that succeeded.  The beautiful black brows met in a spasm of pain over eyes that stared at an abyss of ruin; her lips whitened, she wrung her hands unconsciously; and then, as if numb with horror, she leaned back in her chair, and her chin sank until it touched the black ribbon at her throat.  When after a while she rallied, and forced herself to listen, a pleasant-faced young man was on the witness stand.

“My name is Edgar Jennings, and I live at T——­, in Pennsylvania.  I am ticket agent at that point, of——­railway.  One day, about the last of October (I think it was on Monday), I was sitting in my office when a man came in, and asked if I could sell him a ticket to St. Paul.  I told him I only had tickets as far as Chicago, via Cincinnati.  He bought one to Cincinnati and asked how soon he could go on.  I told him the train from the east was due in a few minutes.  When he paid for his ticket he gave me a twenty-dollar gold piece, and his hand shook so, he dropped another piece of the same value on the floor.  His appearance was so remarkable I noticed him particularly.  He was a man about my age, very tall and finely made, but one half of his face was black, or rather very dark blue, and he wore a handkerchief bandage-fashion across it.  His left eye was drawn down, this way, and his mouth was one-sided.  His right eye was black, and his hair was very light brown.  He wore a close-fitting wool hat, that flapped down and his clothes were seal-brown in color, but much worn, and evidently old.  I asked him where he lived, and he said he was a stranger going West, on a pioneering tour.  Then I asked what ailed his face, and he pulled the handkerchief over his left eye, and said he was partly paralyzed from an accident.  Just then, the eastern train blew for T——.  He said he wanted some cigars or a pipe, as he had lost his own on the way, and wondered if he would have time to go out and buy some.  I told him no; but that he could have a couple of cigars from my box.  He thanked me, and took two, laying down a silver dime on top of the box.  He put his hand in the inside pocket of his coat, and pulled out an empty envelope, twisted it, lit it by the coal fire in the grate, and lighted his cigar.  The train rolled into the station; he passed out, and I saw him jump aboard the front passenger coach.  He had thrown the paper, as he thought, into the fire, but it slipped off the grate, fell just inside the fender, and the flame went out.  There was something so very peculiar in his looks and manner, that I thought there was some mystery about his movements.  I picked up the paper, saw the writing on it, and locked it up in my cash drawer.  He had evidently been a very handsome man, before his ‘accident’, but he had a jaded, worried, wretched look.  When a detective from Baltimore interviewed me, I told him all I knew, and gave him the paper.”