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<v Speaker 1>This is section forty seven of The Gilded Age. This

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<v Speaker 1>LibriVox recording is in the public domain. The Gilded Age,

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<v Speaker 1>A Tale of to Day by Mark Twain and C. D. Warner,

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<v Speaker 1>Chapter forty seven. Philip's first effort was to get Harry

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<v Speaker 1>out of the tombs. He gained permission to see him

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<v Speaker 1>in the presence of an officer during the day, and

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<v Speaker 1>he found that hero very much cast down. I never

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<v Speaker 1>intended to come to such a place as this, old fellow,

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<v Speaker 1>he said to Philip. It's no place for a gentleman.

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<v Speaker 1>They've no idea how to treat a gentleman. Look at

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<v Speaker 1>that provender, pointing to his uneaten prison ration. They tell

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<v Speaker 1>me I am detained as a witness, and I passed

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<v Speaker 1>the night among a lot of cutthroats and dirty rascals,

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<v Speaker 1>A pretty witness. I'd be in a month spent in

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<v Speaker 1>such company. But what under heavens, asked Philip induced you

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<v Speaker 1>to come to New York with Laura? What was it for?

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<v Speaker 1>What for why she wanted me to come. I didn't

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<v Speaker 1>know anything about that cursed Selby. She said it was

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<v Speaker 1>lobby business for the university. I'd no idea what she

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<v Speaker 1>was dragging me into that confounded hotel, for I suppose

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<v Speaker 1>she knew that the Southerners all go there and thought

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<v Speaker 1>she'd find her man. Oh lord, I wish I'd taken

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<v Speaker 1>your advice. He might as well murder somebody and have

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<v Speaker 1>the credit of it as get into the papers the

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<v Speaker 1>way I have. She's pure devil, that girl. You ought

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<v Speaker 1>to have seen how sweet she was on me. What

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<v Speaker 1>an ass I am. Well, I'm not going to dispute

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<v Speaker 1>a poor prisoner, but the first thing is to get

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<v Speaker 1>you out of this. I've brought the note Laura wrote

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<v Speaker 1>you for one thing, and I've seen your uncle and

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<v Speaker 1>explained the truth of the case to him. He will

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<v Speaker 1>be here soon. Harry's uncle came with other friends, and

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<v Speaker 1>in the course of the day made such a showing

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<v Speaker 1>to the authorities that Harry was released on giving bonds

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<v Speaker 1>to appear as a witness when wanted. His spirits rose

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<v Speaker 1>with her usual elasticity as soon as he was out

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<v Speaker 1>of Center Street, and he insisted on giving Philip and

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<v Speaker 1>his friends a royal supper at Delmonico's, an excess which

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<v Speaker 1>was perhaps excusable in the rebound of his feelings, and

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<v Speaker 1>which was committed with his usual reckless generosity. Harry ordered

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<v Speaker 1>the supper, and it is perhaps needless to say that

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<v Speaker 1>Philip paid the bill. Neither of the young men felt

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<v Speaker 1>like attempting to see Laura that day, and she saw

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<v Speaker 1>no company except the newspaper reporters until the arrival of

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<v Speaker 1>Colonel Cellars and Washington Hawkins, who had hastened to New

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<v Speaker 1>York with all speed. They found Laura in a cell

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<v Speaker 1>in the upper tier of the women's department. The cell

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<v Speaker 1>was somewhat larger than those in the men's department, and

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<v Speaker 1>might be eight feet by ten square, perhaps a little longer.

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<v Speaker 1>It was of stone floor and all, and tile roof

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<v Speaker 1>was oven shaped. A narrow slit in the roof admitted

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<v Speaker 1>sufficient light and was the only means of ventilation. When

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<v Speaker 1>the window was opened. There was nothing to prevent the

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<v Speaker 1>rain coming in, the only means of heating being from

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<v Speaker 1>the corridor when the door was ajar. The cell was

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<v Speaker 1>chilly and at this time damp. It was whitewashed and clean,

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<v Speaker 1>but it had a slight jail odor. Its only furniture

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<v Speaker 1>was a narrow iron bedstead with a tick of straw

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<v Speaker 1>and some blankets not too clean. When Colonel Cellars was

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<v Speaker 1>conducted to this cell by the matron and looked in

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<v Speaker 1>his emotions quite overcame him. The tears rolled down his

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<v Speaker 1>cheeks and his voice trembled so that he could hardly speak.

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<v Speaker 1>Washington was unable to say anything. He looked from Laura

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<v Speaker 1>to the miserable creatures who were walking in the corridor

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<v Speaker 1>with unutterable disgust. Laura was alone, calm and self contained,

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<v Speaker 1>though she was not unmoved by the sight of the

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<v Speaker 1>grief of her friends. Are you comfortable, Laura, was the

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<v Speaker 1>first word the colonel could get out. You see, she replied,

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<v Speaker 1>I can't say it's exactly comfortable. Are you cold? It

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<v Speaker 1>is pretty chilly. The stone floor is like ice. It

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<v Speaker 1>chills me through to step on it. I have to

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<v Speaker 1>sit on the bed, poor thing, poor thing. And can

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<v Speaker 1>you eat anything? No, I'm not hungry. I don't know

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<v Speaker 1>that I could eat anything. I can't eat that, oh, dear,

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<v Speaker 1>continued the colonel. It's dreadful. But cheer up, dear, cheer up.

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<v Speaker 1>And the colonel broke down entirely, but he went on,

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<v Speaker 1>We'll stand by you. We'll do everything for you. I

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<v Speaker 1>know you couldn't have meant to do it. It must

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<v Speaker 1>have been insanity, you know, or something of that sort.

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<v Speaker 1>You never did anything of the sort before. Laura smiled

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<v Speaker 1>very faintly and said, yes, it was something of that sort.

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<v Speaker 1>It's all a whirl. He was a villain, you don't know.

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<v Speaker 1>I'd rather have killed him myself in a duel, you know,

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<v Speaker 1>all fair. I wish I had. But don't you be down.

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<v Speaker 1>We'll get you the best counsel. The lawyers in New

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<v Speaker 1>York can do anything. I've read of cases. But you

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<v Speaker 1>you must be comfortable. Now. We've brought some of your

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<v Speaker 1>clothes at the hotel. What else can we get for you?

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<v Speaker 1>Laura suggested that she would like some sheets for her bed,

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<v Speaker 1>a piece of carpet to step on, and her meals

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<v Speaker 1>sent in, and some books and writing materials if it

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<v Speaker 1>was allowed. The colonel and Washington promised to procure all

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<v Speaker 1>these things, and then took their sorrowful leave. A great

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<v Speaker 1>deal more affected than the criminal was, apparently by her situation.

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<v Speaker 1>The colonel told the matron as he went away that

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<v Speaker 1>if she would look to Laura's comfort a little, it

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<v Speaker 1>shouldn't be the worse for her. And to the turnkey

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<v Speaker 1>who let them out, he patronizingly said, you've got a

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<v Speaker 1>big establishment here, a credit to the city. I've got

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<v Speaker 1>a friend in there. I shall see you again, sir.

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<v Speaker 1>By the next day, something more of Laura's own story

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<v Speaker 1>began to appear in the newspapers, colored and heightened by

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<v Speaker 1>reporters rhetoric. Some of them cast a lurid light upon

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<v Speaker 1>the colonel's career and represented his victim as a beautiful

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<v Speaker 1>avenger of her murdered innocence, and others pictured her as

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<v Speaker 1>his willing paramour and pitiless slayer. Her communications to the

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<v Speaker 1>reporters were stopped by her lawyers as soon as they

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<v Speaker 1>were retained and visited her, but this fact did not

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<v Speaker 1>prevent it may have facilitated the appearance of casual paragraphs

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<v Speaker 1>here and there, which were likely to beget popular sympathy

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<v Speaker 1>for the poor girl. The occasion did not pass without

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<v Speaker 1>improvement by the leading journals, and Philip preserved the editorial

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<v Speaker 1>comments of three or four of them which pleased him most.

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<v Speaker 1>These he used to read aloud to his friends afterwards

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<v Speaker 1>and ask them to guess from which journal each of

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<v Speaker 1>them had been cut. One began in this simple manner.

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<v Speaker 1>History never repeats itself. But the kaleidoscopic combinations of the

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<v Speaker 1>pictured present often seemed to be constructed out of the

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<v Speaker 1>broken fragments of antique legends. Washington is not Corinth, and Lays,

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<v Speaker 1>the beautiful daughter of Timandra, might not have been the

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<v Speaker 1>prototype of the ravishing Laura, daughter of the Plebeian house

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<v Speaker 1>of Hawkins. But the orators add statesmen who were the

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<v Speaker 1>purchasers of the favors of the one, may have been

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<v Speaker 1>as incorruptible as the Republican statesmen, who learned how to

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<v Speaker 1>love and how to vote from the sweet lips of

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<v Speaker 1>the Washington lobbyist. And perhaps the modern Lays would never

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<v Speaker 1>have departed from the national capital if there had been

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<v Speaker 1>there even one republican's Inocrates who resisted her blandishments. But

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<v Speaker 1>here the parallel fails. Lays, wandering away with the youth Repostratus,

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<v Speaker 1>is slain by the women who are jealous of her charms. Laura,

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<v Speaker 1>straying into her Thessaly with the youth, briarly slays her

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<v Speaker 1>other lover and becomes the champion of the wrongs of

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<v Speaker 1>her sex. Another journal began its editorial with less lyrical beauty,

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<v Speaker 1>but with equal force. It closed as follows, with Laura

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<v Speaker 1>Hawkins Fair fascinating and fatal, and with the dissolute colonel

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<v Speaker 1>of a lost cause who has reaped the harvest he sowed.

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<v Speaker 1>We have nothing to do. But as the curtain rises

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<v Speaker 1>on this awful tragedy, we catch a glimpse of the

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<v Speaker 1>society at the Capitol under this administration, which we cannot

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<v Speaker 1>contemplate without alarm for the fate of the republic. A

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<v Speaker 1>third newspaper took up the subject in a different tone.

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<v Speaker 1>It said, our repeated predictions are verified. The pernicious doctrines

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<v Speaker 1>which we have announced as prevailing in American society have

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<v Speaker 1>been again illustrated. The name of the city is becoming

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<v Speaker 1>a reproach. We may have done something in averting its ruin.

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<v Speaker 1>In our resolute exposure of the great frauds, we shall

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<v Speaker 1>not be deterred from insisting that the outraged laws for

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<v Speaker 1>the protection of human life shall be vindicated now, so

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<v Speaker 1>that a person can walk the streets or enter the

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<v Speaker 1>public houses, at least in the daytime, without the risk

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<v Speaker 1>of a bullet through his brain. A fourth journal began

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<v Speaker 1>its remarks as follows the fullness with which we present

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<v Speaker 1>our readers this morning. The details of the Selby Hawkins

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<v Speaker 1>homicide is a miracle of modern journalism. Subsequent investigation can

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<v Speaker 1>do little to fill out the picture. It is the

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<v Speaker 1>old story. A beautiful woman shoots her absconding lover in

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<v Speaker 1>cold blood, and we shall doubtless learn in due time

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<v Speaker 1>that if she was not as mad as a hare

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<v Speaker 1>in this month of March, she was at least laboring

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<v Speaker 1>under what is termed momentary insanity. It would not be

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<v Speaker 1>too much to say that upon the first publication of

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<v Speaker 1>the facts of the tragedy there was an almost universal

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<v Speaker 1>feeling of rage against the murderess in the tombs, and

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<v Speaker 1>that reports of her beauty only heightened the indignation. It

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<v Speaker 1>was as if she presumed, upon that and upon her sex,

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<v Speaker 1>to defy the law, and there was a and hope

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<v Speaker 1>that the law would take its plain course. Yet Laura

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<v Speaker 1>was not without friends, and some of them very influential too.

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<v Speaker 1>She had in her keeping a great many secrets and

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<v Speaker 1>a great many reputations. Perhaps, who shall set himself up

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<v Speaker 1>to judge human motives? Why indeed, might we not feel

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<v Speaker 1>pity for a woman whose brilliant career had been so

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<v Speaker 1>suddenly extinguished in misfortune and crime. Those who had known

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<v Speaker 1>her so well in Washington, might find it impossible to

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<v Speaker 1>believe that the fascinating woman could have had murder in

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<v Speaker 1>her heart, and would readily give ear to the current

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<v Speaker 1>sentimentality about the temporary aberration of mind under the stress

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<v Speaker 1>of personal calamity. Senator Dilworthy was greatly shocked, of course,

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<v Speaker 1>but he was full of charity for the airing. We

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<v Speaker 1>shall all need mercy, he said. Laura, as an inmate

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<v Speaker 1>of my family, was a most exemptly female, amiable, affectionate,

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<v Speaker 1>and truthful. Perhaps too fond of deity and neglectful of

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<v Speaker 1>the externals of religion, but a woman of principle. She

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<v Speaker 1>may have had experiences of which I am ignorant, but

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<v Speaker 1>she could not have gone to this extremity if she

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<v Speaker 1>had been in her own right mind. To the Senator's credit,

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<v Speaker 1>be it said he was willing to help Laura and

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<v Speaker 1>her family in this dreadful trial. She herself was not

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<v Speaker 1>without money, for the Washington lobbyist is not seldom more

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<v Speaker 1>fortunate than the Washington claimant, and she was able to

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<v Speaker 1>procure a good many luxuries to mitigate the severity of

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<v Speaker 1>her prison life. It enabled her also to have her

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<v Speaker 1>own family near her, and to see some of them daily.

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<v Speaker 1>The tender solicitude of her mother, her childlike grief, and

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<v Speaker 1>her firm belief in the real guiltlessness of her daughter

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<v Speaker 1>touched even the custodians of the tombs, who are inured

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<v Speaker 1>to scenes of pathos. Missus Hawkins had hastened to her

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<v Speaker 1>She had no reproaches. She had only tenderness and pity.

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<v Speaker 1>She could not shut out the dreadful facts of the case.

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<v Speaker 1>But it had been enough for her that Laura had

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<v Speaker 1>said in their first interview, Mother, I did not know

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<v Speaker 1>what I was doing. She obtained lodgings near the prison

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<v Speaker 1>She was aged and feeble, but this great necessity seemed

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<v Speaker 1>to give her new life. The pathetic story of the

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<v Speaker 1>old lady's ministrations and her simplicity and faith also gone

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<v Speaker 1>to the newspapers in time, and probably added to the

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<v Speaker 1>pathos of this wrecked woman's fate, which was beginning to

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<v Speaker 1>be felt by the public. It was certain that She

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<v Speaker 1>had champions who thought that her wrongs ought to be

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<v Speaker 1>placed against her crime, and expressions of this feeling came

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<v Speaker 1>to her in various ways. Visitors came to see her,

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<v Speaker 1>and gifts of fruit and flowers were sent, which brought

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<v Speaker 1>some cheer into her hard and gloomy cell. Laura had

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<v Speaker 1>declined to see either Philip or Harry, somewhat to the

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<v Speaker 1>former's relief, who had a notion that she would necessarily

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<v Speaker 1>feel humiliated by seeing him after breaking faith with him,

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<v Speaker 1>but to the discomfiture of Harry, who still felt her

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<v Speaker 1>fascination and thought her refusal heartless. He told Philip that

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<v Speaker 1>of course he had got through with such a woman,

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<v Speaker 1>but he wanted to see her. Philip, to keep him

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<v Speaker 1>from some new foolishness, persuaded him to go with him

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<v Speaker 1>to Philadelphia and give his valuable services in the mining

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<v Speaker 1>operations at Ilium. The law took its course with Laura.

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<v Speaker 1>She was indicted for murder in the first degree and

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<v Speaker 1>held for trial at the summer term. The two most

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<v Speaker 1>distinguished criminal lawyers in the city had been retained for

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<v Speaker 1>her defense, and to that the resolute woman devoted her

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<v Speaker 1>days with a courage that rose as she consulted with

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<v Speaker 1>her counsel and understood the methods of criminal procedure in

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<v Speaker 1>New York. She was greatly depressed, however, by the news

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<v Speaker 1>from Washington. Congress adjourned and her bill had failed to

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<v Speaker 1>pass the Senate. It must wait for the next session.

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<v Speaker 1>End of Chapter forty seven