CHAPTER XXVIII.
THE TEMPTER.
Albert was conveyed to St.Paul, but not until he had had one heart-breaking interview with his mother.

The poor woman had spent nearly an hour dressing herself to go to him, for she was so shaken with agitation and blinded with weeping, that she could hardly tie a ribbon or see that her breast-pin was in the right place.

This interview with her son shook her weak understanding to its foundations, and for days afterward Isa devoted her whole time to diverting her from the accumulation of troubled thoughts and memories that filled her with anguish--an anguish against the weight of which her feeble nature could offer no supports.
When Albert was brought before the commissioner, he waived examination, and was committed to await the session of the district court.

Mr.
Plausaby came up and offered to become his bail, but this Charlton vehemently refused, and was locked up in jail, where for the next two or three months he amused himself by reading the daily papers and such books as he could borrow, and writing on various subjects manuscripts which he never published.
The confinement chafed him.

His mother's sorrow and feeble health oppressed him.