ich the defence entered an exception. The expert then
answered:

"It was positively discernible that the deceased had been a mother."

"Can you state how long ago?"

"It is understood, your Honor," said Mr. Dudley, "that we take
exception to this whole line of examination?" To this the Recorder
nodded in assent, and the witness replied:

"Not within a year, I should say."

The witness was then yielded to the defence, but the cross-examination
was confined entirely to the condition of the kidneys, thus making the
prosecution's expert once more add to the evidence in favor of the
defence, by admitting the diseased condition of organs, which it was
claimed would materially affect the action of morphine in the system.

Next followed several witnesses, all of them boarders in the house
where the deceased had dwelt. The object of their testimony was to
show that the deceased passed in the house as a single woman, and that
Dr. Medjora appeared in the light of an accepted suitor. They all
denied that the girl had ever claimed that she was married, or that
she had ever worn a wedding-ring. Under cross-examination they all
admitted that they had never heard of, nor seen a child. It transpired
that she had lived in the house a little more than a year, and that
Dr. Medjora had been a visitor for less than half of that period.

Mrs. Sloane, the mother of the dead girl, then took the stand. She was
dressed in deep mourning, and wept frequently. She testified that her
daughter had always been of an unruly, headstrong disposition, and
fond of enjoying herself. That she had been disinclined to work at
home, and appeared to feel herself better than her own kith and kin.
She had met Dr. Medjora at some musical party several years before,
and the Doctor had become a constant visitor. "But I never liked the
man. Somehow I knew that he was a cruel, dangerous man for a poor
girl, with high ideas, like my Mabel." These remarks offered
voluntarily, and delivered so rapidly that she could not be prevented
from having her say, were objected to, and promptly ruled out, the
Recorder agreeing with Mr. Dudley, that personal impressions could not
be received in evidence against a man's character. Coming down to a
later period, she explained that she and her daughter had "had some
words about her going with that man," and the girl had suddenly left
home. "Of course I knew she had been lured away by that black-hearted
villain," ejaculated the wi