His Other Wife: A Novel — page 322: what you’re looking at

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314 ARRAIGNED. saw had only part of a back on it just as that has. It looks the same anyway. No, Mr. Croft never came back to us. He wrote mother where to send his things. She sent them all. We never heard of Amy afterward. Yes, I saw Mrs. Croft buried. No, the coffin was not opened in the cemetery, nor at the grave. I-did see the body after it was in the coffin before it left the house. It looked natural. It looked like some one asleep. It was cold and stiff. Yes, my mother and sister are both dead. That is all I know.” Miss Lock was then dismissed, and another stranger, a man, placed on the stand. His evidence was.as follows : ‘(My name is Ormond Louis Cathcart, Iam a Cath- olic priest.” At this there was a general stir in the court-room. All eyes bent forward eagerly to scan the spare, tall figure of a man past middle age, with a clear, bold eye, a quiet, patient face,»and the look of a man who feared nothing human. The prisoner shifted his posture just a little, and, if possible, appeared less concerned than before. His upper lip seemed to curve a little scornfully as he cast his eye around the awakened audience, who looked at the priest as if he were a supernatural agent in the drama. EComicbooks. 3 (fo)