He stated the facts of what had happened at Carlisle, merely for
explanation, but would state nothing that could not be proven. Then he
told all that the reader knows about the iron box. But the diamonds were
not then in the box; and he told that story also, treating Lizzie with
great tenderness as he did so. Lizzie, all this time, was sitting behind
her veil in the private room, and did not hear a word of what was going
on. Then he came to the robbery in Hertford Street. He would prove by Lady
Eustace that the diamonds were left by her in a locked desk, were so
deposited, though all her friends believed them to have been taken at
Carlisle; and he would, moreover, prove by accomplices that they were
stolen by two men, the younger prisoner at the bar being one of them, and
the witness who would be adduced, the other; that they were given up by
these men to the elder prisoner, and that a certain sum had been paid by
him for the execution of the two robberies. There was much more of it; but
to the reader, who knows all, it would be but a thrice-told tale. He then
said that he first proposed to take the evidence of Lady Eustace, the lady
who had been in possession of the diamonds when they were stolen.
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