He followed me, an orphan, here into a strange land .-- But that matters not to you .-- Still, if you will hear the truth, the strict and whole...." "Speak!" Orion put in; but she went on, addressing herself exclusively to Nilus, and his peers, and ignoring him completely: "Your president, the son of the Mukaukas, knows that, instead of the accused, I might, if I chose, be the accuser.

But I scorn it--for love of his father, and because I am more high-minded than he.

He will understand!--With regard to this particular emerald Hiram, my freedman, took it out of its setting last evening, under my eyes, with his knife; other persons besides us, thank God! have seen the setting, empty, on the chain to which it belonged.

This afternoon it was still in the place to which some criminal hand afterwards found access, and attached that gem instead.

That I have just now seen for the first time--I swear it by Christ's wounds.