quent opportunities to seize or steal such effects as the shirt and the printed card found on the mangled corpse, but even put it in their power to alienate articles of a more identical description to prove the murder, which they probably declined taking, as they thought those stated above sufficient to answer the sinister purposes of my relentless enemies. Though in the instance of the two innocent domesticks I had reason to be deterred from the very idea of suspicion, yet I found it impossible, on this occasion, to banish it from my mind. But it could answer no salutary end, as the parties suspected, had fled out of the reach of legal enquiry, and sought their abode in a distant world. The very great confidence of my mother in Alfonso, I considered as the effect of feminine weakness, and myself satisfied with his innocence and long-tried rectitude, I could not form the least supposition of its secret motives which a more distant period of time ultimately brought to light.
The day after my arrival was spent in making application to the inquisitors and the bishop
