She was very earnest to see the corpse.

At first I attempted to prevent her but she persisted, and entering the room where it lay, hastily examined the neck of the victim, and clasping her hands exclaimed, 'O God! I have murdered my darling child!' "She fainted, and was restored with extreme difficulty.

When she again lived, it was only to weep and sigh.

She told me, that that same evening William had teased her to let him wear a very valuable miniature that she possessed of your mother.

This picture is gone, and was doubtless the temptation which urged the murderer to the deed.