"
"Look over these things and see if there is any one article among
them which you can fix on as the property of your mistress."
"No ane o' them. sir, no ane o' them. An oath is an awfu' thing,
especially when it is for life or death. Gie the poor woman her
things again, an' let my mistress pick up the next she finds: that's
my advice."
When Mrs. Logan came into the box, the prisoner groaned and
laid down her head. But how she was astonished when she heard
her deliver herself something to the following purport--That,
whatever penalties she was doomed to abide, she was determined
she would not bear witness against a woman's life, from a certain
conviction that it could not be a woman who broke her house. "I
have no doubt that I may find some of my own things there,"
added she, "but, if they were found in her possession, she has
been made a tool, or the dupe, of an infernal set, who shall be
nameless here. I believe she did not rob me, and for that reason I
will have no hand in her condemnation."
The judge: "This is the most singular perversion I have ever
witnessed. Mrs. Logan, I entertain strong suspicions that the
prisoner, or her agents, have made some agreement with you on
this matter to prevent the course of justice.
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