“I came here on foot, Vivi, and I have come to say good-bye. Ah, Vivi! you need not stare, dear. I’m not the old Dodo you have been accustomed to. Great God! why were not my eyes opened before, all the time that Hector D’Estrange has been working for us? But it is not too late. I can retrieve the past even yet, by working on behalf of Gloria de Lara’s cause. Ay, Vivi, it is a cause well worth dying for.”
“Why, Dodo, you must be clean gone cracked! What are you going to do?”
Lady Manderton takes a newspaper out of her pocket, and hands it to Mrs. de Lacy Trevor. “Have you read this?” she inquires at the same time.
Mrs. de Lacy Trevor opens it and reads.
THE GREAT D’ESTRANGE TRIAL.
Speeches of the Attorney-General and
Hector D’Estrange.
The Judge’s Summing Up.
Verdict and Sentence.
Extraordinary Confession of the Prisoner.