"I will, Hugh, so help me God! But it would avail you nothing to speak now."
Coroner: "Have you anything further to state?"
"Nothing, save my most solemn religious conviction that Mr. Atherton is innocent, and that he is the victim of the foulest plot."
Mr. Walker here appealed to the coroner, and said he objected to such insinuations being made there; that Mr. Kavanagh had done his best to criminate the prisoner, and that he was now trying to cast the blame upon others.
Mr. Kavanagh was about to make some violent answer, when the coroner called to order.
Mr. Merrivale: "Will you have the goodness, Mr. Kavanagh, to look toward the end of the room, and see if you identify any one there?"
Mr. Kavanagh: "My God! It is she!"
Coroner: "Who?"
"The woman I met in Vere street that night."
Standing opposite to the witness, with the light full upon her, was a female figure, closely veiled.