I earnestly hope you will receive this poor child, and unite her to her husband, for I am as firmly convinced of her innocence as I am of my own existence at this moment." "Receive her!" Captain Danton cried, with the water in his eyes.

"That I will, with all my heart.

Poor little girl--poor child," he said, going over and taking the weeping wife into his arms.

"What a trial you have undergone! But it is over now, I trust.

Thank Heaven my son is no murderer, and under Heaven, thanks to you, Doctor Danton.