But I can't keep my promise without help." He paused, not at all sure how Mrs.Costello might feel on the subject; and whether all that she and her husband had suffered might have completely embittered her towards the whole family of the murderer.
"Certainly," she answered, "it would be very hard to punish the innocent for the guilty; and I have heard nothing but good of Mrs.Clarkson." The doctor felt relieved.
"I believe there is nothing but good that could be told of her," he said warmly.

"I have known something of her for a long time, and there is not a more decent, respectable woman in the township.

It is a mystery how she ever married that wretched fellow; but after she had married him she was a good wife, and did what little she could to keep him out of mischief.

What is strangest of all, however, is, that she is almost heart broken, poor soul, not for his wickedness, but for his death." "Poor thing! But the circumstances of his death must have made it more horrible to her ?" "It is a mercy that she does not seem to have understood that.

She is very ill, and seems not to have had time to think yet--except that she has a vague idea that her children will starve." "They shall not do that.