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'They told ht hi hiht falsehood, and fight fraud and treachery,--when they co? You have not been fool enough to believe that fable about a duel? I did stand once, aruarded my bedroom door from him, and told him that he should only enter it over my body He went away to the tavern and I did not see him for a week afterwards That was the duel And they have told you that he is not dead'

'Yes;--they have told me that'

'Who has seen him alive? I never said to you that I had seen him dead How should I?'

'There would be a certificate'

'Certificate;--in the back of Texas;--five hundred miles from Galveston! And ould itto the law of the State of Kansas Does not the law ain,--and why not with us? I sued for a divorce on the score of cruelty and drunkenness He raced by that?'

'I heard nothing of the divorce'

'I do not re of these old days before, you did not care how short I was in tellingthen of Caradoc Hurtle Now you have become more particular I told you that he was dead,--as I believed myself, and do believe Whether the other story was told or not I do not know'

'It was not told'

'Then it was your own fault,--because you would not listen And they havebackabout your property but what you yourself have said unasked I have asked no question about your property'

'You are welcoain my own And now, sir, what else is there? I think I have been open with you Is it because I protected myself from drunken violence that I am to be rejected? Am I to be cast aside because I saved my life while in the hands of a reprobate husband, and escaped froy I have secured s, then say why am I condemned'