I have my pardon under seal.

Help me then to be an innocent murderess, and to save this sinner from her last agonies on earth.' I cannot set down the feelings with which I listened to this tale of horror, for words could not carry them.

I stood aghast seeking an answer, and a dreadful thought entered my mind.
'Is this woman named Isabella de Siguenza ?' I asked.
'That name was hers in the world,' she answered, 'though how you know it I cannot guess.' 'We know many things in this house, mother.

Say now, can this Isabella be saved by money or by interest ?' 'It is impossible; her sentence has been confirmed by the Tribunal of Mercy.

She must die and within two hours.