Agnes, or, Beauty and Pleasure — page 241: what you’re looking at

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AGNES; OR, BEAUTY AND PLEASURE, —- ~— > SS WAS ISS Y, \ SZ — Sa Hlardress,” rejoined Ormsby, ‘‘ you took every possible precaution on that memorable night to conceal your identity from Mrs. Maddox. But nevertheless she discovered it after a time; and the consequence is the arrest of your uncle as the murderer of Mrs. Chicklade. Your evidence will not be required—you can add no material link to the chain that has been already wrought.as if by the hand of Providence itself!” ~Lord Ormsby then gave Cicely certain explana- tions in connexion with the various circumstances that led to the bringing of her uncle to *ustice. No. 82.—AGNEs. ey lon 233 aes Sat ee \e ms vw i ai S Win agp ead A\=\\ \ Lh sorrel of NAN 0% tli J flint, e in \ , ty ' ‘““T do indeed see,” she said, “that there is naught which I can add to render the evidence more conclusive—though there is something | may tell you to make it more complete. And as I can- not possibly prejudice a cause which is so utterly without a hope, I will fill up the slight gap which exists. Indeed, I will do it for my own sake, Mr. H rgrave—to prove that I at all events am com- pletely innocent of any complicity in that. dark crime !” Cicely paused for a few moments; and then she continued in the following manner :— Vou. IL co lNOO@LK > CO) 5}