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What You Have Been Saying About Her

Q. Do you mean that he said that, at the same time as he told you he had seen her at breakfast?

A. Yes; I locked him up in a separate cell from the woman - his wife asked when I returned if I had got him; I then went to Aldgate charity school, and took the boy - I told him his father and mother were in custody about an old woman who was missing; the prisoners were in three separate cells- the man was in the middle cell, between the woman and boy, and I heard a conversation between them; the woman began it - she called out Ned, and said, "Ask little Ned who told him to say what he has been saying about me;"- the man called out, "Ned, your mother wants to know who told you to say what you have been saying about her?" the boy answered Nobody - the man returned the answer to her; she then called out "Ned, ask Ned how he came to say what he has been saying about me;" the man repeated the question, and the boy called out very lond, "Why because she did it;" the woman said, "What does he say?" the man told her, and she then said, "Oh, Lord Jesus, that we should suffer for this, what we know nothing about;" the man said, "God knows I had no hand in it," and then he said again, "Never mind, there is nothing in this world that we wish to live for - there will be forgiveness by God in the last moment;" that is all that passed then.

Page last modified on December 26, 2006, at 05:31 PM
Originally by horkheimer.