His Other Wife: A Novel — page 328: what you’re looking at

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320 FATHER LOUIS’ STORY. Father Louis then produced and read aloud the fol- lowing: ‘¢REVEREND SIR :—You will remember that I told you of an un- finished letter found under the hand of my dead friend and the saYiour of my life, Uriel, the Indian. The contents of that letter in- formed me that if I should ever have the desire to use the materials he had so carefully collected against one Mathew Croft, I would find them in your possession, or that of some one to whom you would consign them at your death. These materials I now demand of you, and also that you shall appear to attest the validity of them in open court when summoned. Your obliged servant, ‘© RACHEL CROFT.’? Father Louis went on to say: ‘‘This letter was delivered into my hands by a gentle- man now present in this house, and upon the summons of the court I am here to testify.” Mr. Craig then rose to his feet in front of the witness- stand, and said: ‘Have you anything further to relate in connection with the trust confided to you by the Indian?” ‘*Yes; I deemed it my duty and my privilege, after carefully examining the written testimony given into my hands by the Indian, to make certain investigations which would enlighten me with regard to the agency which the singular old volume filled in the dark tragedy which, ac- cording to the Indian’s representation, had been enacted. Fortunately, my own scholarship was sufficiently extensive to enable me to do this without the aid of a third party.” Father Louis here reached out his hand, and Mr. Craig placed in it the aged and discolored remains of a once Eomicbooks.¢o