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"That poor woman e used to call Mrs Rawlins told her sad story

next She is much worn and subdued, and Mr Grey was struck with

the change from the fierce excitement she shohen she was first

confronted with Maddox, after her own trial; but she held fast to the

sa it not resentfully, but sadly and firmly, as if

she felt it to be her duty She, as you know, explained how Maddox

had obtained access to Mr Williams's private papers, and how she had,

afterwards, found in his possession the seal ring, and the scraps of

paper in his patron's writing A policeman produced theed letter The bits of paper

showed that Maddox had been practising i It all seemed most distinct, but still there was some sharp

cross-examination of her on her own part in the matter, and Mr Grey

said it ell that little Rose could so exactly confirm the facts she

mentioned

"Poor, dear little Rose looked very sweet and innocent, and not so htened as at her first exae

way in which she had been frightened into silence Half the people in

the court were crying, and I am sure it was a mercy that she was not

driven out of her senses, or even ht It see that she aloke and

talked while herto bed, the phosphoric letters were

prepared to frighten her, and detain her in her roorowled at her when she tried to pass the door She was asked how she

knew the growl to be Maddox's, and she answered that she heard hih Rachel will, I a could make it clearer than that the woman had spoken the