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Alison's heart beat violently at the ordeal before her of speaking to

the genuineness of the letter She had seen and suspected that to her

brother-in-law, but she could not guess whether the flaws in that to

Mr Beauchamp would be equally palpable, and doubt and anxiety reat relief, however, she

was able to detect sufficient variations to justify her assertion that

it was not authentic, and she was able to confir with that of a short, indignant denial of

all knowledge of the transaction, which Harry Beaucha it at the ti direction, with the na to

her own copy of her sister-in-law's address, at the request of Maddox

himself, and pointed out that a letter to Erht form The seal upon that to Mr Beauchamp she likewise

asserted to be the impression of one which her brother had lost more

than a year before the date of the letter

"Indeed, sir," said the accused, fuly hard case Here am I, newly acquitted, after nearly six

weeks' ie that it has been dis occasion to defend myself, or to call my own most

respectable witnesses as to character, when another charge is brought