Logan?
On being answered in the affirmative, she said that the
unfortunate prisoner in the Tolbooth requested her, as she valued
all that was dear to her in life, to go and see her before she
appeared in court at the hour of cause, as she (the prisoner) had
something of the greatest moment to impart to her. Mrs. Logan's
curiosity was excited, and she followed the girl straight to the
Tolbooth, who by the way said to her that she would find in the
prisoner a woman of superior mind, who had gone through all the
vicissitudes of life. "She has been very unfortunate, and I fear
very wicked," added the poor thing, "but she is my mother, and
God knows, with all her faults and failings, she has never been
unkind to me. You, madam, have it in your power to save her; but
she has wronged you, and therefore, if you will not do it for her
sake, do it for mine, and the God of the fatherless will reward
you."
Mrs. Logan answered her with a cast of the head, and a hem! and
only remarked, that "the guilty must not always be suffered to
escape, or what a world must we be doomed to live in!"
She was admitted to the prison, and found a tall emaciated figure,
who appeared to have once possessed a sort of masculine beauty
in no ordinary degree, but was now considerably advanced in
years.
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