nd left it to be engraved. On the Sunday, the banns were
put up. On the Monday, she was deserted; and she snatched the knife from
the table while the engraver was at work.

She only knew that Zebedee had added a new sting to the insult inflicted
on her when he arrived at the lodgings with his wife. Her duties as cook
kept her in the kitchen--and Zebedee never discovered that she was in
the house. I still remember the last lines of her confession:

"The devil entered into me when I tried their door, on my way up to bed,
and found it unlocked, and listened a while, and peeped in. I saw them
by the dying light of the candle--one asleep on the bed, the other
asleep by the fireside. I had the knife in my hand, and the thought came
to me to do it, so that they might hang _her_ for the murder. I couldn't
take the knife out again, when I had done it. Mind this! I did really
like you--I didn't say Yes, because you could hardly hang your own wife,
if you found out who killed Zebedee."

Since the past time I have never heard again of Priscilla Thurlby;
I don't know whether she is living or dead. Many people may think I
deserve to be hanged myself for not having given her up to the gallows.
They may, perhaps, be disappointed when they see this confession, and
hear that I have died decently in my bed. I don't blame them. I am a
penitent sinner. I wish all merciful Christians good-by forever.

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