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The harassed burghers appealed to the Alsatian Décapole, and again to the free Swiss cantons for protection, and sometimes obtained more than they wanted. Mulhouse was seriously affected by these lawless depredations. To her, Berne promised aid in a twenty-five years' alliance signed in 1466, and at Berne's insistance the cowardly nobles restrained their license.
"But, if your supposition is to hold good, how did your father happen to be in possession of that dagger, which evidently was made with malice aforethought, as the lawyers say?" "Exactly," she said, her lips quivering, hands gripping spasmodically at her knees. "He didn't do it! He didn't do it! Berne's idea was a mistake!"
"But I'd heard Berne's what he was saying to you and the judge's description of what they'd seen; and I thought you would like to know of the footsteps I'd heard because they were the murderer's; they must have been. I knew it was important, most important." "You were entirely right," he agreed warmly. "Thank you, very much."
He had not realized how unqualified it was. "Did you ask the judge about it?" he inquired. "Yes; just before I came in here after Berne's collapse. I felt so helpless! But he tried to persuade me my imagination had deceived me; he said they had had no such scene. You know how gruff and hard Judge Wilton can be at times. I shouldn't choose him for a confidant." "No; I reckon not.
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