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210 REYNOLDS’ WORKS complete as well as consistent in all its parts. What this was, we need not at present explain to the reader; suffice it to say that having obtained from the woman all he could elicit, he gave her some money and returned to Stanley Hall. After a long conference with Sir William and Captain Stanley, it was decided that an attempt should be made to induce Crazy Jane to take up her abode at the hall, where it was proposed to place her under the care of the housekeeper, who was a kind-hearted and intelligent woman. We need not unnecessarily extend the details of our narrative by de- scribing how this aim was accomplished; it is sufficient for our purpose to state that it was successfully carried out, and when the poor woman found herself apparelled in decent attire, seated in a comfortable room, supplied with good wholesome food, and treated with the most ecompassionating kindness, she so fully comprehended the change in her con- dition that she was melted to tears. Mr. Redcliffe hastened up to London, to ascertain the progress of those measures which he had some months pre- viously set a foot on Lettice Rodney’s behalf, and to which he had distantly alluded in his conversation with her, but ‘on this head it is hkewise unnecessary for us to enter into particulars at the present moment, inasmuch as the whole will shortly transpire. At-the expiration of another week the trial of Lettice Rodney commenced at Liverpool. ‘The court, opening with the usual solemnities, was crowded to excess, for all the excitement which the murder had created at the time was now revived. It had been rumoured, too—as we have already said, — that Lettice Rodney was not altogether without friends, and that there were certain quarters in which a belief of her innocence existed. Able counsel were en- gaged to prosecute, able counsel likewise appeared for the defence; and the countenances of the jury showed that they were fully aware of the deep and awful responsibility which attached itself to the duty they had to perform. The entrance of Lettice Rodney into the court produced a strong impression upon all present. She was dressed in her plainest apparel; the bloom of her beauty was gone, but of that loveliness a sufficiency remained to show what it must have been before anguish and illness had worked such ravages CONNIE OO KS (E(@) m