This was his reputation; and this I must now see exemplified before me, without the power to stop it.

The consideration with which he approached his subject did not deceive me.
"Miss Cumberland, will you now give the jury the full particulars of that evening's occurrences, as witnessed by yourself.

Begin your relation, if you please, with an account of the last meal you had together." Carmel hesitated.

Her youth--her conscience, perhaps--shrank in manifest distress from this inquisition.
"Ask me a question," she prayed.

"I do not know how to begin." "Very well.