His Other Wife: A Novel — page 350: what you’re looking at

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342 MISTAKEN IDENTITY. Mr. Wilson retired, and Rachel Croft vas summoned to reappear. aaee> The same question was propounded to her. She asked for a pencil and piece of paper. It was given her, and she leaned over the table in front of her, and drew something upon the blank surface of the paper. This she handed to Mr. Craig, with the slowly enunciated words : = “If the prisoner at the bar is the Mathew Croft con- cerning whom my testimony has been given, a mark-/the that will be found upon his right shoulder about three inches from where it joins the neck.” All eyes turned toward the prisoner as the witness re- tired to the antechamber. His face was fairly livid. He shook in every limb. The judge said : ‘“Mathew Croft, you have heard the testimony just given by the chief witness for the prosecution in this trial. It is the duty of the court to see that every item of evidence be duly weighed, and that the prisoner be well and truly tried. Mr. Sheriff, you will proceed at once to make the investigation.” The prisoner rose, and, with convulsive agitation, pro- tested against the indignity to be offered his ‘‘sacred_ per- son.” The jndge said, solemnly : ‘“‘Innocence, Mr. Croft, shrinks from no test which the sacred majesty of the law demands. Mr. Sheriff, do your duty on the prisoner at the bar.” __ (E(e) Comicbooks.