CHAPTER V.
On the day after Dr.Letsom's death, Margaret Dornham's husband was apprehended on a charge of poaching and aiding in a dangerous assault on Lord Turton's gamekeepers.

Bail was refused for him, but at the trial he was acquitted for want of evidence.

Every one knew he was guilty.

He made no great effort to conceal it.

But he defied the whole legal power of England to prove him guilty.