"You can prove nothing against me." "Defy me ?--ha!" cried Solomon Eagle, with a terrible laugh.

"First," he added, dashing her backwards against the wall--"first, to prove my power.

Next," he continued, drawing from her pockets a bunch of keys, "to show that I speak the truth.

These were taken from the vest of the murdered man.

No one, as yet, but ourselves, knows that he is dead." "And who shall say which of the two is the murderer ?" cried Judith.
"Villain! I charge you with the deed." "You are, indeed, well fitted for your appointed task," returned Solomon Eagle, gazing at her with astonishment, "for sometimes Heaven, for its own wise purpose, will allow the children of hell to execute its vengeance upon earth.