4/8 "Did they take him to the court-house and hang him ?" "No, of course they wouldn't hang _him_. They said it was the third degree, and they sent him to the State's Prison." "O, is your father in the State's Prison ?" Dotty thought if her father were in such, a dreadful place, and she herself were blind, she should not wish to live; but here was Emily looking just as happy as anybody else. Indeed, the little girl was rather proud of being the daughter of such a wicked man. She had been pitied so much for her misfortunes that she had come to regard herself as quite a remarkable person. She could not see the horror in Dotty's face, but she could detect it in her voice; so she went on, well satisfied. |