Witch Hazel; or, The Secret of the Locket — page 288: what you’re looking at

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prove her assertions, She was obliged to confess_ there was, but she was Silent when requested to give the name of that person. This she had refused to do from the first, for several reasons, although both the duchess and Lord Nelson had pleaded with her many times to do so. Percy was in Paris, studying, and she conld not bear to call him back. She shrank, too, from hay- ing people know that she had been guilty of decep- tion in connection with him; it night make them distrust her more in this case, while, worse than all, she feared he might become implicated with her in her great trouble. She meant to fixht it out alone if she could; if her innocence were not established, she would appeal to him as a last resort. Notwithstanding the favorable impression that she had made upon the court, she could only be judged from the evidence presented. This, of course, | told very much against her, and Lord Nelson was almost in despair as he realized how the matter must terminate. “They will find you guilty,” he said, when the court took a recess, his tine face full of anxiety. ‘““Yes, Miss Gay,” her counsel added; ‘'I do not see how it can be otherwise, since you refuse to produce the only witness who can save you.” “Do you think the case so discouraging?’ she asked, deeply troubled. ‘I have told only the truth.” “That may be; I am convinced of that myself; but circumstances are all against you. You will not only lose the jewels which you value so much, but you will be convicted and imprisoned.” “Tt cannot be that they will do me such a wrong as that,” Hazel replied, with white lips. “But, my dear,” said the duchess, her. oraie fa chin for her, ‘‘they will have to judge yon ® | OQ {o) 2 72 > cad