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"To sum up then," said Mr. Minturn in tones she never before had heard: "I
can put on oath this man, who will be forced to tell what he witnessed or
be impeached by others who saw it at the same time, and _are ready to
testify to what he said;_ I can produce the boy who came to tell me the
part he took in it; I have the affidavit and have just come from the woman
who interfered and followed you here in an effort to save Elizabeth; I
have this piece of work in my hands, done by one of the greatest
scientists and two of the best surgeons living. Although you shrink from
it, I take pleasure in showing it to you. This ragged seam is an impress
of the crack you made in a tiny skull lying in a vault out at Forest
Hill."
He paused, holding a plaster cast before the woman.
"It's a little bit of a thing," he said deliberately. "She was a tiny
creature to have been done to death at your hands. I hope you will see
that small pink face as I see it, and feel the soft hair in your fingers,
and--after all, I can't go on with that.


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