idence. It contained the prisoner's daily record of domestic
events, and of the thoughts and feelings which they aroused in him at
the time.

A most painful scene followed this explanation.

Writing, as I do, long after the events took place, I still cannot
prevail upon myself to describe in detail what my unhappy husband said
and did at this distressing period of the Trial. Deeply affected
while Lady Brydehaven was giving her evidence, he had with difficulty
restrained himself from interrupting her. He now lost all control
over his feelings. In piercing tones, which rang through the Court,
he protested against the contemplated violation of his own most sacred
secrets and his wife's most sacred secrets. "Hang me, innocent as I am!"
he cried, "but spare me _that!_" The effect of this terrible outbreak on
the audience is reported to have been indescribable. Some of the women
present were in hysterics. The Judges interfered from the Bench,
but with no good result. Quiet was at length restored by the Dean of
Faculty, who succeeded in soothing the prisoner, and who then addressed
the Judges, pleading for indulgence to his unhappy client in most
touching and eloquent language. The speech, a masterpiece of impromptu
oratory, concluded with a temperate yet strongly urged protest against
the reading of the papers discovered at Gleninch.

The three Judges retired to consider the legal question submitted to
them. The sitting was suspended for more than half an hour.

As usual in such cases, the excitement in the Court communicated itself
to the crowd outside in the street. The general opinion here--led, as it
was supposed, by one of the clerks or other inferior persons connected
with the legal proceedings--was decidedly adverse to the prisoner's
chance of escaping a sentence of death. "If the letters and the Diary
are read," said the brutal spokesman of the mob, "the letters and the
Diary will hang him."

On the return of the Judges into Court, it was announced that they had
decided, by a majority of two to one, on permitting the documents in
dispute to be produced in evidence. Each of the Judges, in turn, gave
his reasons for the decision at which he had arrived. This done, the
Trial proceeded. The reading of the extracts from the letters and the
extracts from the Diary began.

The first letters produced were the letters found in the Indian cabinet
in Mrs. Eustace Macallan's room. They were addressed to the deceased
lady b