{"product_id":"2940013197893","title":"A Lost Life","description":"THE twenty-first of December was an eventful night. In the fashionable\u003cbr\u003epart of the town of Brightstone, in a house opposite the corner house of\u003cbr\u003eBrunswick Terrace, and just two doors from the Catholic chapel, sat two\u003cbr\u003eladies, one about forty-five, the other a young girl of some fifteen\u003cbr\u003eyears.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"It is late, Arabella,\" said the older lady; \"we had better go to bed.\u003cbr\u003eCuthbert will not arrive to-night.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Very well, Aunt Alice,\" replied Arabella.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"But hark!--what is that noise in the street opposite?\" Just as the\u003cbr\u003eclock of the Catholic chapel was striking 12 there rose on the still\u003cbr\u003enight air a fearful cry--\"Murder! murder!\"--and Lady Alice St. John,\u003cbr\u003etearing aside the curtain, looked from the window. Lights were flashing\u003cbr\u003ein the corner house, and a crowd was fast gathering; and she could see\u003cbr\u003eone man in the grasp of a policeman, \"Oh, heavens!\" she said, \"what has\u003cbr\u003ehappened? What is the matter?\" she cried aloud to a man hurrying past.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Murder!\" he answered with a face of horror. \"There has been murder done\u003cbr\u003ethere to-night.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Who--who?\" said Lady Alice. \"I know the family--in pity speak.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"It is the foreign lady, Lady Egerton; they've taken the murderer under\u003cbr\u003eher window; he's an Italian,\" said the man, and mingled with the crowd.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA few days after this event, the following paragraph appeared in the\u003cbr\u003elocal paper:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A terrible murder has been committed at Brightstone, on the night of\u003cbr\u003ethe 21st instant. The murdered lady was the Lady Egerton, and the deed\u003cbr\u003ewas perpetrated in the most cruel and deliberate manner, the unfortunate\u003cbr\u003elady having been first stabbed and then shot with a pistol. The guilty\u003cbr\u003eparty was arrested under the very window, one pistol in his hand, and\u003cbr\u003eits fellow on his person. He is a foreigner, and gave his name Giulio\u003cbr\u003eDoria, strongly protesting his innocence, and said he saw a man run\u003cbr\u003eround the corner; but though he had none of the quantity of missing\u003cbr\u003ejewels (the supposed temptation to the deed) on his person, he was at\u003cbr\u003eonce secured and taken before the magistrates. The most singular part of\u003cbr\u003ethe affair is, that Sir Angelo Egerton, the murdered lady's son, is\u003cbr\u003ereluctant to prosecute, asserting his belief in the prisoner's\u003cbr\u003einnocence; and a little girl, his ward, who was in the bedroom at the\u003cbr\u003emoment of the fearful deed, maintains that the man was not its\u003cbr\u003eperpetrator, but her tender age, only six years, renders her evidence,\u003cbr\u003eespecially at a time of such terror and agitation, of comparatively\u003cbr\u003elittle weight. The Bench thought there was strong presumptive evidence\u003cbr\u003eagainst the prisoner, and fully committed him for trial.\"","brand":"Purple Cow Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47082452844784,"sku":"2940013197893","price":5.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013197893_p0.jpg?v=1763577799","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013197893","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}