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"No, to be sure"

"Nohether," pursued Herbert, "he had used the child's mother ill, or

whether he had used the child's mother well, Provis doesn't say; but she

had shared some four or five years of the wretched life he described

to us at this fireside, and he seems to have felt pity for her, and

forbearance towards her Therefore, fearing he should be called upon to

depose about this destroyed child, and so be the cause of her death, he

hid hirieved for the child), kept himself dark, as he

says, out of the way and out of the trial, and was only vaguely talked

of as a certain man called Abel, out of whom the jealousy arose After

the acquittal she disappeared, and thus he lost the child and the

child's mother"

"I want to ask--"

"A enius, Co

out of the way at that ti so, of course

afterwards held the knowledge over his head as ahiht that this barbed

the point of Provis's animosity"