against her was simply the effect of panic � the headlong panic that will even a strong man to run away from the sight of a shocking deed � a panic from which once recovered she made her way back to the very spot that she would have like the plague had she been a guilty woman i i say that she did not commit the murder that the whole of her life and character � merciful and humane � the thought but that her policy throughout has been to shield the real murderer one who is even here present � a man who in a moment of mad jealousy against his friend the woman he loved and strove to cast the guilt on the woman who loved him i say gentlemen of the jury that i demand the of this woman on the ground that the charge against her is not proved and in her place and in the interests of justice to place at the bar the real murderer who had a motive for the crime that the prisoner had not the judge frowned the jury unused to the opposing counsel smiled through the court a rustle as of a light wind among autumn leaves ran and none looked at the prisoner who was struggling for breath and gazing at her advocate as if she could have slain him but at mr who was calm with the strength in which there is no effort the s tory of a sin wild seeming to on the speaker like a wave dashed backwards from a granite cliff the next moment s champion had regained his courage and pressed onward before there was time to receive the he expected it had been said that there was a motive for the crime and this motive had been declared to be jealousy and this was true enough the murder had been committed through that passion but not by the prisoner it would be necessary to remind the jury of those facts that had long been public talk � the engagement of the deceased lady with lord her intimacy with him on his return her well known with him from the white house and mr s pursuit of the couple them before they had gone any farther than he had at the time affected to treat the matter as a joke and had bid lord to his house as usual but it was observed by many that a great change was perceptible in him from that time and he even neglected those duties that he had formerly fulfilled so to all appearance to meet his equals mr was a very proud man � one who made laws but was not governed by them � and it was only natural to suppose that as time went on and he found his young wife less and less a companion to him he should become jealous of the brilliant young man who in looks age and spirits story of a was so much more a fitting mate for her than him on the n ht of the murder it was dear that he had left the two together then placed where he could be an of all that passed and by a most unfortunate it occurred that they were conversing in a way that to the gardener sounded like and to him may have had a more sinister significance as he himself at his table his head resting on his outstretched arms in the attitude in which lord had seen him when he looked through the window it was to be that stung to a jealous madness � a second in his jealousy as she a in her innocence � some one had ascended to mrs s apartment and struck at her the blow that was her death it would be found entirely consistent with the prisoner s former conduct that while present at the deed � nay while she even struggled to it � she should be bent on hiding the fact from every living soul and escape hurriedly before there could be a chance of her being called upon to relate what she had seen the shriek that escaped her had been at the horrible sensation she experienced on feeling the presence of some person at the foot of the ladder and if she had fought wildly it had not been for fear on her own account but on that of another person the evidence of the man as to the story of a sin precise moment in which he heard the scream was confused and not to be trusted his in the kitchen having his wits so that he was not able to swear if the cry preceded or followed his grip of the ladder and now to examine the evidence that had been offered of her wish to steal the child of the deceased could a more improbable time possibly have been selected than that of nigh upon midnight and in what way could the mother retired to rest in the opposite wing have that plan or interfered with it she had access to him could have carried him away at any hour of the day she willed and it was inconceivable that she should have chosen this hour of the night to drag from his warm bed the little lad that she so passionately loved there are motives of jealousy which men and women to the commission of murder of hatred and revenge of and plunder that may spur them on to deeds of wickedness but as to the prisoner what motive of hatred had she to mrs by her successful rival s death she gained nothing � the ashes upon a stone cold hearth were not colder than the heart of the man who had made her his toy and crushed her under foot the child s love was already hers and should she that by a deed foreign to every 