The old hussy ran into the fire like a miller, and stood there screaming, 'Look at that picture on the wall! Oh, God! do you see it ?' she shouted to the fellow who found her standing in the smoke and flames.

The chap was so excited he really thought that he did see the picture of a woman holding a knife." "That is strange, isn't it ?" said I."Who was the man ?" "A detective," said he, "whom I hired to watch the house that night.

He heard some disturbance, it seems, and, fearing mischief, he immediately forced the door open and ran pell-mell into your cousin, noble fellow, who was then bringing you down-stairs.

If he had been one moment later the woman would have been burned to death, and we would never have got this deposition.

Cobb wouldn't have been the first to weaken, you may be sure of that.