But if I was you I'd communicate with my friends, and get some money to have my husband defended." "They'd sooner pay for the rope to hang him," she said.

"You seem a kind and pitiful sort of man; tell me honestly, is there any chance for him ?" "Honestly, none.

There may be some chance of his life; but there is evidence enough on this one charge, leave alone others, mind you, to convict twenty men.

Why, we've evidence of two forgeries committed on his father before ever he married you; so that, if he is acquitted on this charge, he'll be arrested for another outside the court." All night long she sat up nursing the child before the fire, which from time to time she replenished.

The officers in possession slept on sofas, and dozed in chairs; but when the day broke she was still there, pale and thoughtful, sitting much in the same place and attitude as she did before all this happened, the night before, which seemed to her like a year ago, so great was the change since then.