Her Faithful Knight — page 322: what you’re looking at

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\ 318 Tracked Down. whether, in the over-excited state of Phyllis’ nerves, and the provocation she had received in the facts of her painful domestic history, she had, in a sudden impulse either of jealousy, aggravated by the sight of Darcy Derrick in the garden, or the desire to become possessed of her sister's fortune, murdered her sister; and, thirdly, as to whether there was any evidence to prove that Maria Cresswell was an accessory before or after the fact. After half an hour’s deliberation, the jury returned a verdict of willful murder against Phyllis Knight, and acquitted Maria Cresswell of all complicity in the crime, they holding that Dorothea Derrick had met death by a blow inflicted with some blunt instrument by her sister after the latter had ineffectually endeavored to procure her death by administering laudanum in large quantities. Evening was closing in as Aylmer, worried, excited, and weary, hurriedly left the precincts of the court, and, jumping into a passing cab, gave the address: “ao Ashgrove road.” And close behind him in another cab sat the Hon. Darcy Derrick, tracking him home. Eomicdooks (E@)