He argued that the delay in firing was not intentional, therefore not criminal,--the effect of the stun which the wound in the temple had occasioned.

The judge was a gentleman, and summed up the evidence so as to direct the jury to a verdict against the low wretch who had murdered a gentleman; but the jurors were not gentlemen, and Grayle's advocate had of course excited their sympathy for a son of the people, whom a gentleman had wantonly insulted.

The verdict was manslaughter; but the sentence emphatically marked the aggravated nature of the homicide,--three years' imprisonment.

Grayle eluded the prison, but he was a man disgraced and an exile,--his ambition blasted, his career an outlaw's, and his age not yet twenty-three.

My father said that he was supposed to have changed his name; none knew what had become of him.