His Other Wife: A Novel — page 344: what you’re looking at

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336 RACHEL’S TESTIMONY. who had voluntarily made of herself the engine of retri- bution, crushing out all her humanities, and becoming a mere machine to work out a purpose at once just and vengeful. At this question a shadow of some fierce emotion trem- bled over the immovable face of Rachel Croft, the witness. She answered, more slowly, but not less distinctly than be- fore : ‘*My place of residence was in the midst of the house- hold at Lucerne. I was called Mrs. Foster, the house- keeper.” | When she said these words the glowing rays from her wonderful jet irids streamed full upon the face of the prisoner. | Her look seemed to say to him; ‘*Fancy, if you can, the hell upon earth to which I con- demned myself there.” A visible shudder passed over the body of the prisoner, but he faced the deadly challenge of those mysterious eyes without further sign of emotion. ‘What caused you to force the indictment of which this trial is the result : ‘‘My child’s disappearance, and, as we have every reason to believe, death, through the instrumentality of the man introduced to her society by Mr. Croft and Aes other wife, and to whose mercy she was abandoned | their carelessness or neglect.” ‘‘Can you produce the deed made in favor of the (E(@) 3 €omicbooks.