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Be comforted! be comforted! for you make me good amends, in that your heart refuses, in spite of such belief, to think me guilty of the crime for which I am to suffer. There is another—you know whom I mean—who thinks me innocent. When I am gone, ye will be often together, and speak and think of Violet Murrey. This is the memory I shall leave behind me: my evil fame with others is of little moment. And yet I needs must weep to think of it; 't is human weakness.

God bless and strengthen thee, my daughter, in this thy last extremity!

Fear not for that: I am strengthened. You have prayed for me fervently, and I have prayed for myself; and think ye I shall not be supported? (Looking round on the crowd.) And these good people, too, some of them, I trust, will pray for me. They will one day know that I am innocent.

We know it already.—She must be so.—She is innocent.