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The Dead Alive

CHAPTER VIII
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THE CONFESSION.
MY replies to the lawyer accurately expressed the conviction in my mind.

The narrative related by Ambrose had all the appearance, in my eyes, of a fabricated story, got up, and clumsily got up, to pervert the plain meaning of the circumstantial evidence produced by the prosecution.

I reached this conclusion reluctantly and regretfully, for Naomi's sake.

I said all I could say to shake the absolute confidence which she felt in the discharge of the prisoners at the next examination.
The day of the adjourned inquiry arrived.
Naomi and I again attended the court together.


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