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the bonnet and veil, and now stood with hen
eyes fixed upon him. Her features were those
of woman of fifty, who had once been hand
some. Sorrow and weeping had left traces
upon them, which not time itself would ever
have produced, without their aid her face was
deadly pale, and there was nervous contortion
of the lip, and an unnatural fire in her eye,
which showed too plainly that her bodily and
mental powers had nearly sunk beneath an &C
cumulaton of misery.


"Thero has been violence here" said the
surgeon, preserving his searching glance.


"There has" replied the woman.


"This man has been murdered"


"That | call God to witness he has" said
the woman, passiouatcly; "pitilessly, inhu-
manly murdGred.n


"By whom}" said the surgeon, scizng the
woman by the arm.


"Look at the butchers marks, and then ask
mel" she replied.


The surgeon turned his face toward the bed,
and bent over the body, which lay full in the
light of the window. The throat was swollen,
and blue, livid mark encircled it. The truth
flashed suddenly upon him.


"This is one of the men who were hung
this morningn' he exclaimed, turning away
with shudder


at is,n replied the woman, with a cold, un-
meaning stare.


"Who was he;" inquired the surgeon.


".iiy sOnm rejoined the woman; and fell
senseless at his feet.


And her son it was. A companion, equally
guilty with himself, had been acquitted for
lack of evidence, while he had been left for
death, and executed. The mother, widow,
without friends or money, had denied herself
the necessaries of life, to bestOw them upon
her orphan boy, who, unmindful of her pray
ers, and forgetful of the incessant anxiety Of
mind and voluntary starvation of body which
she had endured for him, had plunged into
career of dissipation and crime, which had re-
suited in his own death by the hangman s
hands, and his mothers shame and ncurable
insanity.