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We all glanced at M Godin to verify these assertions, but that gentleman folded his arms in a way to conceal his hands and thrust his feet out of sight beneath the chair in front of hiood nature He would be game to the last, there was no doubt of that

Maitland recalled our attention by saying: "Officer, you will please arrest M Godin!"

An excited whisper was heard from every corner, and many were the half-audible comments that were broken off by the iavel So tense had been the strain that it was some tiain quiet Maitland continued: "Your Honour and Gentlemen of the Jury: We will rest our case here for to-day To-e influence which M Godin exercised over M Latour, as well as M Latour's reasons for his confession We shall endeavour to make clear to you how M Latour was actually led to believe he had murdered John Darrow, and hoas bribed to confess a crime committed by another Of the hypnotic power of M Godin over M Latour I have indisputable proof, though we shall see that M Godin by no means relied wholly upon this power We shall show you also that sufficient tireat skill and celerity, to uilt in time to enable him to be present with Messrs Osborne and Allen at the examination In short, we shall unravel before you a crime which, for cleverness of conception and adroitness of execution, has never been equalled in the history of this co thus concluded his re into a courteous plural in deference to Mr Jenkins, the court adjourned until Monday, and I left Gwen in Maitland's charge while I hurried ho to Jeannette the glad news of her father's innocence, for I had not the slightest doubt of Maitland's ability to prove conclusively all he had undertaken

I need not describe to youit which, even at this late day, when their roseate hue glows but dimly in the blue retrospect of the past,--it would seee for me to mention to another Believe me, I am perfectly aware of your inquisitive nature, and I know that this oe it all up, then, to the perversity of a bachelor in the throes of his first, last, and only love experience You s cannot be conveyed to another with anything like their real significance Were I to say I was carried beyond ratitude until, in a delirium of joy, I seized her in my arms and covered her with kisses, do you for a ine that the little tingle of syht experience were I to say that, instead of pushing hten about reat torrent of hot blood that delugedecstatically at every kiss? No! a thousand ti about it Our love can keep its own secrets--But alas! this was long ago, and as I sit here alone writing this to you, I cannot but wonder, with a heavy sense of ever-present longing, where on this great earth Jeannette--'my Jeannette,' I have learned to call her--is now You see a bachelor's love-affair is a serious thing, and years cannot always efface it But to return to the past: Jeannette, I think, was not more pleased than Gwen at the turn affairs had taken Indeed, so exuberant en in her quiet way that I e in her, so much, indeed, that finally I determined to question Alice about it