No circumstance of importance, from the beginning to the end of the disclosure, shall be related on hearsay evidence. As the Judge might once have heard it, so the Reader shall hear it now. If the machinery of the Law could be depended on to fathom every case of suspicion, and to conduct every process of inquiry, with moderate assistance only from the lubricating influences of oil of gold, the events which fill these pages might have claimed their share of the public attention in a Court of Justice.īut the Law is still, in certain inevitable cases, the pre-engaged servant of the long purse and the story is left to be told, for the first time, in this place. This is the story of what a Woman's patience can endure, and what a Man's resolution can achieve.
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