My Charles will forgive me when I am gone. He will know I loved him to
desperation."
It took her many days to write; it was quite a thick quarto; so much
may a woman feel in a year or two; and, need I say that, to the reader
of that volume, the mystery of her conduct was all made clear as
daylight; clearer far, as regards the revelation of mind and feeling,
than I, dealer in broad facts, shall ever make it, for want of a
woman's mental microscope and delicate brush.
And when this record was finished, she wrapped it in paper, and sealed
it with many seals, and wrote on it,
"Only for my husband's eye. From her who loved him not wisely, But too
well."
And she took other means that even the superscription should never be
seen of any other eye but his. It was some little comfort to her, when
the book was written.
She never prayed to live. But she used to pray, fervently, piteously,
that her child might live, and be a comfort and joy to his father.
The person employed by Wheeler discovered the house agent, and the
woman he had employed.
But these added nothing to the evidence Bassett had collected.
At last, however, this woman, under the influence of a promised reward,
discovered a person who was likely to know more about the matter--viz.
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