e murder. It is a tedious hunt, but
I will not be balked of my game. I will collar that wretch some day,
and meantime I will get the pardon."

"I hope so; for I shall never feel easy until that poor girl is set
free. The more I hear of her deportment and character, especially of
the religious influence she seems to be exerting through some Bible
readings she holds among the female convicts, the more painfully am I
oppressed with the conviction that we all committed a sad blunder, and
narrowly escaped hanging an innocent woman."

"Speak for yourself. I disclaim complicity in the disgraceful wrong of
the conviction."

"Well, I confess I would rather stand in your place than mine;
especially since my wife's brother Garland was called in as consulting
physician, last month at the penitentiary. He has so stirred her
sympathies for the woman whom he pronounces a paragon of all the
virtues and graces, that I begin to fidget now at the sound of the
prisoner's name, and can hardly look my wife straight in the face. When
I go up to court next week, I will call on the Governor, and add a
personal appeal to the one I have already signed. According to the
evidence, she is guilty; but when justice is vindicated, one can afford
to listen to the dictates of pity. Now, Dunbar, let me congratulate you
on your recent good luck. We hear wonderful accounts of your new
fortune."

"Rumor always magnifies such matters; still it is true that I have
inherited a handsome estate." "Does your sister share equally?"

"A very liberal legacy was left to her, but you are aware that I was
named for my mother's brother, Randall Lennox, and he has for many
years regarded me as his heir; hence, gave me the bulk of the property."

"It is rather strange that he never married. I recall him as a very
distinguished looking man."

"He had a love affair very early in life, while at college, with the
daughter of his Greek professor. Surreptitiously he took her to drive
one afternoon, and the horse became frightened, ran away and killed the
girl. He was a peculiar man, and seems never to have swerved from his
allegiance to her memory."

"I hope it is not true that the conditions of the will require you to
remove from X---and settle in New Orleans? We can't afford to lose you
from our bar."

"There are no restrictions in my Uncle Lennox's will; the legacy was
unconditional; but the obligation of complying with his urgent desire
to have me live in New Or