chapter 1
preamble
this is the story of what a woman\'s patience can endure, and what a man\'s resolution can achieve.
if the machinery of the law could be depended on to fathom every case of suspicion, and to conduct every process of inquiry, with moderate assistance only from the lubricating influences of oil of gold, the events which fill these pages might have claimed their share of the public attention in a court of justice.^^^^^
preamble
this is the story of what a woman\'s patience can endure, and what a man\'s resolution can achieve.
if the machinery of the law could be depended on to fathom every case of suspicion, and to conduct every process of inquiry, with moderate assistance only from the lubricating influences of oil of gold, the events which fill these pages might have claimed their share of the public attention in a court of justice.^^^^^