you.' He stopped
a bit there, and then he said on a sudden, 'Do me one favor, my angel!
Promise me not to marry again.' The lady's voice spoke out thereupon
sharply enough, 'What do you mean?' My master said, 'I wish no harm to
the unhappy creature who is a burden on my life; but suppose--' 'Suppose
nothing,' the lady said; 'come back to the house.'

"She led the way into the garden, and turned round, beckoning my master
to join her. In that position I saw her face plainly, and I knew it for
the face of the young widow lady who was visiting at the house. She was
pointed out to me by the head-gardener when she first arrived, for the
purpose of warning me that I was not to interfere if I found her picking
the flowers. The gardens at Gleninch were shown to tourists on certain
days, and we made a difference, of course, in the matter of the flowers
between strangers and guests staying in the house. I am quite certain of
the identity of the lady who was talking with my master. Mrs. Beauly
was a comely person--and there was no mistaking her for any other than
herself. She and my master withdrew together on the way to the house. I
heard nothing more of what passed between them."

This witness was severely cross-examined as to the correctness of his
recollection of the talk in the summer-house, and as to his capacity for
identifying both the speakers. On certain minor points he was shaken.
But he firmly asserted his accurate remembrance of the last words
exchanged between his master and Mrs. Beauly; and he personally
described the lady in terms which proved that he had corruptly
identified her.

With this the answer to the third question raised by the Trial--the
question of the prisoner's motive for poisoning his wife--came to an
end.

The story for the prosecution was now a story told. The staunchest
friends of the prisoner in Court were compelled to acknowledge that
the evidence thus far pointed clearly and conclusively against him. He
seemed to feel this himself. When he withdrew at the close of the third
day of the Trial he was so depressed and exhausted that he was obliged
to lean on the arm of the governor of the jail.

CHAPTER XIX. THE EVIDENCE FOR THE DEFENSE.

THE feeling of interest excited by the Trial was prodigiously increased
on the fourth day. The witnesses for the defense were now to be heard,
and first and foremost among them appeared the prisoner's mother. She
looked at her son as she lifted her veil