For some time past I have thought that it must be so; and
latterly the confession of two of the accomplices has made it certain to
me. One of the housebreakers and the jeweller will be tried for the
felony, and I am afraid that you must undergo the annoyance of being one
of the witnesses."
"What will they do to me, Major Mackintosh?" Lizzie now for the first time
looked up into his eyes, and felt that they were kind. Could he be her
rock? He did not speak to her like an enemy--and then, too, he would know
better than any man alive how she might best escape from her trouble.
"They will ask you to tell the truth."
"Indeed I will do that," said Lizzie--not aware that, after so many lies,
it might be difficult to tell the truth.
"And you will probably be asked to repeat it, this way and that, in a
manner that will be troublesome to you. You see that here in London, and
at Carlisle, you have--given incorrect versions."
"I know I have. But the necklace was my own. There was nothing dishonest--
was there, Major Mackintosh? When they came to me at Carlisle I was so
confused that I hardly knew what to tell them. And when I had once--given
an incorrect version, you know, I didn't know how to go back.
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