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knowledge that the deceased was slain by a wound from such a weapon, I see not how your judges can acquit you.

Be it so! I am innocent: Heaven will protect me.

God grant you deliverance! But the ways of Divine Providence are mysterious as to this world. In the next, most assuredly, the innocent are always delivered.

Have you, then, in the course of your legal experience, known instances of the innocent suffering death for imputed crimes?

I have; even when tried by an impartial judge, and the fair laws of their country.

But their memory was vindicated afterwards, else you had never been acquainted with such dismal perversion of circumstances.

After many years,—nearly the lapse of half a century, it was discovered.