He remembered that on the night before, the strange woman assured him she had not been robbed, and he felt that the charge was exceedingly strange and unaccountable.
"Come," said he, "the sooner this business is cleared up the better.
For my part, I don't know what to make of it, nor do I care much how it goes.

I knew since yesterday evening, that bad luck was before me, at all events, an' I suppose it must take its course, an' that I must bear it." The father had sat down, and now declined uttering a single word in vindication of his' son.

The latter looked towards him, when about to pass out, but the old man waved his hand with sorrowful impatience, and pointed to the door, as intimating a wish that he should forthwith depart from under his roof.

Loaded with twofold disgrace, he left his family and his friends, accompanied by the constables, to the profound grief and astonishment of all who knew him.
They then conducted him before a Mr.Brooldeigh, an active magistrate of that day, and a gentleman of mild and humane character..