Agnes: A Tale of the Streets — page 284: what you’re looking at

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AGNES; OR, BHAULY AND PLEASURE. tiardress,” rejoined Ormsby, “ you took every nasgible precaution on that memorable night to conceal your identity from Mrs, Maddox. But nevertheless she discovered it after a time; and the consequence is the arrest of your uncle as the murderer vf Mrs. Chicklade. Your evidence will not be required—~you can add no material link to the chain that has been already wrought as if by the hand of Providence itself |” Lord Ormsby then gave Cicely certain explana- tions jg oonnexion with the various circumstancos that led to the bringing of her uncle to justice. No. 82.—AGNES. *T do indeed see,” she said, “ that there is naught which I can add to render the evidence more conclusive—though there is something I may tell you to make it more complete. And as I can- not possibly prejudice a cause which is so utterly without a hope, I will fill up the slight gap which exists. Indeed, I will do it for my own sake, Mr. Hargrave—to prove that I at all events am com- pletely innocent of any complicity in that dark crime !” Cicely paused for a few moments; and then she ; continued in the following manner :— Vou. Il. MICO CO SH CO