The Illegal Marriage — page 204: what you’re looking at

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« ' . ™oe¥ ., bi 7 196 THE ILLEGAL MARRIAGE. tainties of the law, it is not always so, I fear. I have seen innocent men writhe and turn pale under the torture of the law, and suffer as much—quite as much—as if they had been guilty.” “Then it must be the fault of the law, Mr. Craw- ford.” “Or the fault of the men in my profession, more proreny speaking. I know a lawyer now, who ullied the witnesses in a murder case until he had a man hanged; two years afterward, his own abilities in the same line proved the man innocent.” “How terrible! I should dislike that man exceed- ingly.” “And yet he is a noted man at the Georgia bar—a most excellent father and neighbor.” “JT could not like him.” “Then I’ll not tell you his name, Miss Morgan. Well, this is not cheerful talk for you; but you have nothing to fear.” “J do not—I have not had the slightest fear.” “Come, colonel, Martin may be down to-night, and we must be ready to meet him.” They rose to go, but she raised her hand to bid them be again seated. “Pray do not go immediately—that is, if you can spare me a moment. I want to ask about Doctor Trippe?” “ He is doing famously—indeed, we had hard work to keep him from starting for Perry the moment he heard you were here.” “He is so kind—how happy I am to hear that he is better. But I wanted to inquire about his acci- dent. How did it happen?” “That we do not know. There is a mystery about - it, but Trippe refuses to tell how it happened.” “But was not his horse shot.” 7 “Yes; Trippe says that it was an accident; but I have my own opinion upon the matter.” “T can scarcely conceive that he should be shot twice by accident, and very near the same place,” said Stannard. “It was hardly a month ago that he came to my house with a hole through his coat.” “I do not believe it was an accident,” Crawford GComicbooks (Eo)