"Was he to understand that she went of her own will before the bench of
magistrates at Carlisle, with the view of enabling the police to capture
certain persons for stealing certain jewels, while she knew that the
jewels were actually in her own possession?"
Lizzie, confounded by the softness of his voice as joined to the harshness
of the question, could hardly understand him, and he repeated it thrice,
becoming every time more and more mellifluous. "Yes," said Lizzie at last.
"Yes?" he asked.
"Yes," said Lizzie.
"Your ladyship did send the Cumberland police after men for stealing
jewels which were in your ladyship's own hands when you swore the
information?"
"Yes," said Lizzie.
"And your ladyship knew that the information was untrue?"
"Yes," said Lizzie.
"And the police were pursuing the men for many weeks?"
"Yes," said Lizzie.
"On your information?"
"Yes," said Lizzie, through her tears.
"And your ladyship knew, all the time, that the poor men were altogether
innocent of taking the jewels?"
"But they took the box," said Lizzie, through her tears.
"Yes," said the acute and learned gentleman, "somebody took your
ladyship's iron box out of the room, and you swore that the diamonds had
been taken.
Pages:
1112
1113
1114
1115
1116
1117
1118
1119
1120
1121
1122
1123
1124
1125
1126
1127
1128
1129
1130
1131
1132
1133
1134
1135
1136