Witch Hazel; or, The Secret of the Locket — page 306: what you’re looking at

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| — The jury were then instructed to bring in a verdict of “not guilty,” and word was at once sent out to Hazel that she was acquitted and released from eustody. Mrs. Stewart was créatly humiliated and distressed. Humiliated on account ot her injustice and unkind- ness to Hazel, and distressed about the loss of her own necklace. “It is the strangest thing in the world what can have become of mine,” she said, while talking the watter over with the prosecuting attorney when the court had adjourned. ‘I was so sure that there was only one such necklace in the world. What can have been the fate of the other?" “Thatis a mystery which remains to be solved,” the gentleman returned ; and just at that moment his glance chanced to fall upon Helena Stewart. She was sitting like a statue, apparently unmind- ful of observation, not a particle of color in her face, avery peculiar expression about her beautiful mouth, a look in her eyes that might have been the result of various emotions; to the acute lawyer it seemed like baffled anger or inteuse hatred. “She doubtless expected to inherit that valuable necklace sometime, aud cannot tolerate the thought of losing it,” he said to himself. He continued to wateh her furtively, while still conversing with her mother, and noticed thut her baueful glance tollowed Mrs. Earlescourt, who was leaving the room just then, while the muscles about her mouth twitched almost convulsively. As the door closed after Huzel’s mother, she put her hand to her throat, gave vent to a quick, gasping DPRRUR: and na suddenly i to yer feet: “Let us go home, mumima,’”’ she said_i Bs ch ’ constrained tone, and apparently indi imlcDieol scorn)