I was peculiarly helpless, as I have no near relations who might have come to my defense.

Representing himself always as the agent of his father, but far exceeding the Earl in the malevolence of his inventions, Reginald Maltravers sought by every means he could command to drive me from public life in England.
"Three times he succeeded in having me flung into Holloway Jail.

I need not tell you of the terrors of that institution, nor of the degrading horrors of forcible feeding.

They are known to a shocked and sympathetic world.

But Reginald Maltravers contrived, in my case, to add to the usual brutalities a peculiar and personal touch.