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72 heard of her father's lamentable end, and had never been able to rise since. I approached her bedside, weeping bitterly; but I met her eye without fear or shame; for I felt certain that neither I, nor mine, had ever injured her; and that much as she deserved pity, I deserved it still more. She held out her hand to me, and said, 'Poor girl! God help you!' and then her tears choked her voice. 'Amen! Madam,' I sobbed out, for I have none else to help me now!'

"'Don't say that, Susan, don't say that!' said she. 'I'll help you; why should you suffer that are innocent?'

"'I believe in my soul that I am not more innocent than my brother, Ma'am,' said I. 'If you can think that Andrew did this cruel wicked deed, think that I was privy to it for one is as likely as the other.'

"'God in heaven only can know that I' said she.

"'And I on earth, Madam!' I replied; 'and though I may never live to see itthough I may have starved on a dunghill or perished in the street before that time comesit will come, Madam. God will justify usthe day will come that Andrew will be cleared.'