Here is a good woman maligned and slandered.

There is nothing against her.

She was acquitted in open trial by a jury of responsible citizens under a judge of the Highest Court in India.

Yet she is left alone--like a leper.
She is the victim of gossip and _such_ gossip.

Richard," said the old man solemnly, "for uncharitableness, ill-nature and stupid malice the gossip of a Sussex village leaves the most deplorable efforts of Voltaire and Swift entirely behind." "Father, you _are_ going it," said Dick with a chuckle.