innocent victim even if could be apprehended in any part of the world to which he had fled and brought to england for trial miss would have to go into court and swear to his conduct this was clearly out of the question also discovered by suggestions that the father would have anything happen rather than give his child in marriage to a wretch of that description then came the idea of finding a husband for her of a suitable position in life and its gradual by the half man who was in his distress so much clay in the hands of the how the husband was found mr gray did not need to be told became mrs gray and what seemed like a new chance for happiness in her wrecked life was given her the history of a crime but she said her lips trembling had not been married to you a week before that man s hateful attentions were renewed he managed to meet me when others were not present and to pour his awful suggestions in my ears we would be quite safe now he told me i had your name think of that to protect me i felt the strong influence of the other days drawing at my brain but the thought of you and the confidence you had placed in me me to resist and besides there was the life for which i must keep myself pure he never ceased to persist he came to he sent me letters which he knew i dared not show he went to hiding from you and tried to make me see him he was in when was born yes one of my nurses accepted his she brought me a bunch of roses from him which i made her throw into the as soon as i saw his card she told me he had walked up and down an adjacent street all night and that she had sent messages to him every half hour telling of my condition no doubt he had paid her handsomely i was helpless to stop his conduct my tongue was tied i had told one story and i dared not begin with a new one we came back to london and you left me for that long stay in america do you remember i think you will never forget the night before you sailed i had seen him that day and he had said with a smile of confidence that after you were gone i could no longer refuse him up to that time you had treated me with only the ordinary kindness of a friend i was love gone astray frightened to have you go for i felt that without your love to guard me his wicked influence would be more than i could resist you came in to say coolly that you were about to get ready for your departure and i fell fainting to the floor that evening i heard you walking about your room making your preparations my blood mounted to my head if you left me like that i knew what the result might be at last i heard your voice and i went into your room you thought me a dreadful creature one who ought to be ashamed of her actions but i was desperate you saved me from a fate that would have been worse than death i parted from you the next morning strong in the belief that no man could shake my and i was right your steamer could hardly have sailed from when my came for the second time he began to try the of threats he said my father s in america were in danger and that he had it in his power to make or him he had a representative in who would obey his slightest suggestion and if i still held out he intended to destroy our fortune i did not believe he had the power to do this but if i had it would have altered nothing in my behavior i was only careful not to offend him for i feared to provoke his anger whether he prayed or cursed it was the same to me now i would sooner have thrown myself into a den of wild beasts than into his arms my husband held my entire love and esteem and my heart went out to him in the first blooming of that passionate flower i had come so late to know r ik of a crime my mother s death and my father s did not move the pity of this madman when i needed the greatest consideration he forgot everything but himself he told me one day that he could save a million to us if i gave the word by a mere signal over the cable i did not even trust myself to answer him when you returned he kept away for a short time but soon after we came to he began to dog my steps here he wrote me that he cared nothing for his reputation his profession his friends or his family he wanted nothing in the world but me unless i submitted to him he would tell you all coupled with that were not even founded on fact then came letters alluding to your interest in the property he could stop your that if he were to tell what he knew for the first time i began to feel alarmed at his power he had proved that his regarding my father s fortune were correct ones were you to lose yours also mr s claim was put in and then mr wrote that if i asked him to do so he would prove that claim false in a mad hope to move by an appeal to his manhood i made the visit he had long prayed for to his hotel i could have committed no greater error instead of changing his attitude 