His Other Wife: A Novel — page 262: what you’re looking at

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- 254 A MIDNIGHT VISITANT. Of the subsequent course of events the reader is already aware. It was of all these things together, and a thousand other links in the long chain of his life’s vicissitudes, that Mathew Croft sat brooding before the grated window of his prison-cell. | Who knows but that, above all other reminiscences of this checkered retrospection, the solemn adjuration of the woman whose wifely faith he had so terribly blighted filled his ear and brain to the exclusion of all hope: ‘‘God deal with you according to your manner of ful- filling the trust reposed in your hands by the dead!” CHAPTER XXVIL A MIDNIGHT VISITANT. The prisoner turned at length from his depressing re- flections, and addressed himself to the task of writing two letters. One of these was to a lawyer of some ability re- siding in the city ; the other was directed to a distinguished legal personage in one of the adjoining States. . These letters were duly dispatched, and in the afternoon Mr. Fields, one of his compeers at the bar of , called in response to the former of these epistles. Informing himself of Mr. Fields’ willingness to be associated with Eomichooks.co =|