I fully believe that you would have taken the life of this poor youth, and, did I not regard you as one of the necessary agents of Heaven's vengeance, I would instantly deliver you up to justice.

But the measure of your iniquities is not yet filled up.
Your former crimes are not unknown to me.

Neither is the last dark deed, which you imagined concealed from every human eye, hidden from me." "I know not what you mean," returned Judith, trembling, in spite of herself.
"I will tell you, then," rejoined Solomon Eagle, catching her hand, and dragging her into the furthest corner of the vault.

"Give ear to me," he continued, in a low voice, "and doubt, if you can, that I have witnessed what I relate.

I saw you enter a small chamber behind the vestry, in which Thomas Quatremain, who once filled the place of minor canon in this cathedral, was laid.