[Kate Danton, or, Captain Danton’s Daughters by May Agnes Fleming]@TWC D-Link bookKate Danton, or, Captain Danton’s Daughters CHAPTER XX 18/34
"I can sleep when I know you are with him.
Do you think there is any danger ?" "I trust not.
You and I have seen far more serious cases down there in St.Croix, and we have brought them round.
It is a very sad story, his--I am very sorry for your brother." Kate stooped and kissed the hot face, her tears falling on it. "Poor, poor Harry! The crime of that dreadful murder should not lie at his door, but at that of the base wretch he made his wife!" "Are you quite sure, Miss Danton," said the young Doctor, seriously, "that there may not have been some terrible mistake? From what your father tells me, your brother had very little proof of his wife's criminality beyond the words of his friend Furniss, who may have been actuated by some base motive of his own." "He had the proof of his own senses," Kate said, indignantly; "he saw the man Crosby with his wife, and heard his words.
The guilt of Harry's rash deed should rest far more on her than on him." She turned from the room, leaving her father and the young Doctor to watch by the sick man all night.
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