I tried to shake his obstinate distrust of your belief in his innocence and of my belief in his innocence by every argument and every appeal that an old friend could address to him.

He had but one answer to give me.

Reason as I might, and plead as I might, he still persisted in referring me to the Scotch Verdict." "The Scotch Verdict ?" I repeated.

"What is that ?" The Major looked surprised at the question.
"Have you really never heard of the Trial ?" he said.
"Never." "I thought it strange," he went on, "when you told me you had found out your husband's true name, that the discovery appeared to have suggested no painful association to your mind.

It is not more than three years since all England was talking of your husband.