And knowest thou how that was accomplished?
Who led thy doting husband where he might hear thine own lips proclaim thy falsity?
Who poisoned the chalice of life, which had been so sweet, ere it was dashed from his lips by death?
Who commanded the murderer's blow, and the weapon with which it was accomplished?
Who laid the charge of his murder on the foreign minion, and brought thee in evidence against him?
Who but I--even I! And if I have done all this, thinkest thou to elude my further vengeance?
I tell thee, if thou refuse the grace I proffer, Arthur Stanley dies; accept it, and he lives!" "And not at such a price would Arthur Stanley wish, to live," replied Marie calmly.

"He would spurn existence purchased thus." "Ay, perchance, if he knew it; but be it as thou wilt, he shall know thou couldst have saved him and refused." "And thinkest thou he will believe thee?
As little as I believed him my husband's murderer.

How little knowest thou the trust of love! He will not die," she continued emphatically; "his innocence shall save him--thy crime be known." "Ay!" replied Garcia, with a sneering laugh.

"Give thyself wings as a bird, and still stone walls will encircle thee; dwindle into thin air, and gain the outer world, and tell thy tale, and charge Don Luis Garcia with the deed, and who will believe thee?
Thinkest thou I would have boasted of my triumphant vengeance to aught who could betray me?
Why my very tool, the willing minister of my vengeance--who slew Morales merely because I bade him--might not live, lest he should be tempted to betray me; I slew him with my own hand.

What sayest thou now--shall Stanley live, if I say Let him die ?" There was no reply, but he looked in vain for any diminution in the undaunted resolution which still sustained her.
"I go," he continued, after a pause.