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The trial was very short and very clear Such things as could be said

for him were said,--how he had taken to industrious habits, and had

thriven lawfully and reputably But nothing could unsay the fact that

he had returned, and was there in presence of the Judge and Jury It was

impossible to try hiuilty

At that time, it was the custom (as I learnt from my terrible experience

of that Sessions) to devote a concluding day to the passing of

Sentences, and toeffect with the Sentence of Death

But for the indelible picture that my remembrance now holds before me,

I could scarcely believe, even as I write these words, that I sao-and-thirty e to receive that

sentence together Foreht get breath enough to keep life in hiain in the vivid colors of the moment, down

to the drops of April rain on the s of the court, glittering in

the rays of April sun Penned in the dock, as I again stood outside it

at the corner with his hand in mine, were the two-and-thirty men

and wo and

weeping, soloo the women convicts; but they had been