His Other Wife: A Novel — page 352: what you’re looking at

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344 MISTAKEN IDENTITY. of intellectual force over the moral and physical man. It was the pale, unflinching courage that mind casts like a mantle over matter in a moment of supreme danger. In the midst of this silence the prosecuting attorney, Mr. Craig, rose and faced the jury. Upon a tall, slender form sat a fine, well-balanced head, and from a face of venerable aspect the hair was thrown carelessly back. Huis features were subdued, and his tones grave and quiet, as he said : ‘‘Gentlemen of the jury, to the evidence given in your hearing to-day, and which will be ably collated for you by his honor, the presiding judge, I have a few words to add. ““The wrecked and blasted remnant of womanhood who stood before you to-day presented a more potent ap- peal to your sense of justice than all the invectives that eloquence could hurl against the hand that wrought that ruin, so piteous and so complete. ‘‘For the body slain by a murderous blow, or the poisoned draught, our laws demand the body of the mur- derer as a holocaust to justice. A life for a life, according to the grim Hebraic code. | ‘‘But for the murdered heart, the slain hope, the violated trust, the desecrated vows, human justice has not ventured to appoint an adequate atonement. These offenses cry aloud to Heaven for vengeance, and with High God must their punishment remain. “It is for you, gentlemen, to decide whether Mathew - Croft, the prisoner at the bar, is guilty or not guilty of the S) -CO Eomicboo