It was not my plan to take Ida from you.

I was poor, and money tempted me." "Who could have had an interest in doing me this cruel wrong ?" asked the mother.
"One whom you know well--Mr.John Somerville." "Surely you are wrong!" exclaimed Mrs.Clifton, in unbounded astonishment.

"That cannot be.

What object could he have ?" "Can you think of none ?" queried Peg, looking at her shrewdly.
Mrs.Clifton changed color.
"Perhaps so," she said.

"Go on." Peg told the whole story, so circumstantially that there was no room for doubt.
"I did not believe him capable of such great wickedness," ejaculated Mrs.Clifton, with a pained and indignant look.