The Birkenhead News and Wirral General Advertiser. — 1913-09-20 (Birkenhead, Merseyside, England)

ASXZW.  CHAPTIR 81171.--Continued.  ,-- He- suddenly felt very y—o—oici",-;id he realised- at the Game time that he had lost Felicitr—Jost her whatever happened —for if she was condemned to death he must stead up in court and announce that he was the murderer; he couldn't let Felicity hang for his crime. And, on the Other hand, if she was acquitted—why, it would be Tony's arm she would cling to as she left the court— it would be Tony whom she would marry. He had no tloubt whatever on that point. Yes, he had lost the girl he tad sinned to gain, and in losing Felicity he had lost Felicity's money. He had Ltained his bandit with blood and he had gained nothing in nichange--nothing. The Evil One had mocked him; he had sold his soul for naught. " Money, the root of all evil—the root Of all evil." He muttered the words in low, unsteady tones, then his head sank forward on his breast. His eyes halfclosed.  Someone else entered the witnees-box 60 81" aVidallae, a tall, dark-haired young woman dressed in a neat black coat and skirt—a very typical-looking lady's-maid —and Maud NS, &az, after naming lean duly sworn, proceeded to give her evidence in a clear, somewhat defiant tone of votes.  She explained that she had been in Mrs. Letizner'e service for a good many yaws, and had only left to better herself. She gave .a little toss of her head as she made the last remark, and Hammonds, who had taken Maud Wilcox's place in Mrs. Latimer's household, flushed at this, and did not look too pleased. "I was .very loud indeed of poor. Mrs. Latimer " the witness remarked. "But, of course, she wasn't the sort of lady that it does a maid much good to be staying with. She wasn't in Society, if I may 21 so,y so. The witness paused, then, in answer W a question suddenly put to her by Sir Jacob, she admitted that she had been in the habit of preparing an arsenic complexion wash for Mrii. Latimer—a 10...i0n just like the-lotion the prisoner had rested that she had been asked to make for the deceased.  "My mistress used to instruct me to purchase fly-papers," Wilcox said, slowly "and I had to boil these fly-papers i a little water to extract he arsenic from them, and wih this water 7 wide a lotion. I used to put a little encumber to it and a little roes-water, tndLatimer always thought that it did marvels for her complexion. But she - se very 'particular about not letting anyone know that she used a lotion; she made a great secret of it. She liked people to think that her complexion was quite natural, and that it owed nothing to art. It was just, the bathe with her rouge and her powder. It would have given her a fit if I hadn't kept her pot of rouge hidden up in her dressing-aloe. She wa& awfully funny in that way, and I am prepared to swear that not a soul in Mn. Latimer employ knew that I was in the habit of purchasing fly-papers to make a skin lotion for my, mistress. It would have been as much as my place was worth if I had let out about any of her toilet secrets. _ _  "Wby, twice a year I had to to Paris to buy her the gold stuff with which @be used to tint her hair, and some face creams she believed in, and her own special rouge. She wouldn't let these things comb over by post--elie 17 as so afraid it might be found out that she owed most of her good looks to the skilful use of cosmetics—and I haven't a doubt that he bound Miss Felicity Harwood ever to secrecy in the same %.ay, for Miss Harwood came to her just a month after I'd left, and she had enough lotion stored away in her dressing-case to last her over a good three months; sO I don't suppose that she took her new maid ii3to her oonadenos about the lotion. I expect she preferred to trust to Miss Harwood."