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I would fain soften the colouring; but I speak truth of myself, and I must not, unless I would blacken my name yet deeper than it deserves, varnish truth when I speak of others. Houseman joined, and presented to me this person. From the first I felt a dislike creep through me at the stranger, which indeed it was easy to account for. He was of a careless and somewhat insolent manner.
Robert's Cave, Thistle Hill, near Knaresborough, came upon a human skeleton, bent double and buried in the earth. Suspicion was aroused. These bones, it was surmised, might be those of Daniel Clarke. His mysterious disappearance and his associates were remembered. The authorities sent forth and arrested Terry, Houseman, and Eugene Aram, and those persons were brought to their trial at York.
Away, march, tramp, or Ha, ha! there they go, there they go!" laughing wildly again as the frightened neighbors shrank from the spot, leaving only Walter and the clergyman with the childless man. "Be comforted, Houseman!" said Summers, soothingly; "it is a dreadful affliction that you have sustained. I knew your daughter well: you may have heard her speak of me.
His sudden appearance, his tall stature, his wild gesture, the horror, the paleness, the grief of his countenance, struck and appalled all present. He remained speechless, and a sudden silence succeeded the late clamor. "And what do you here, fools?" said a voice, abruptly. The spectators turned: a new comer had been added to the throng, it was Richard Houseman.
No, Houseman, however circumstances may have darkened or steeled your heart, it is touched with humanity yet you will have owed to me the bread of a secure and easy existence you will feel that I have stripped myself, even to penury, to purchase the comforts I cheerfully resign to you you will remember that, instead of the sacrifices enjoined by this alternative, I might have sought only to counteract your threats, by attempting a life that you strove to make a snare and torture to my own.
Time, in this, has made Houseman what Clarke was then. "One day, in passing through the street, though it was broad noon, I encountered Clarke in a state of intoxication, and talking to a crowd he had collected around him. I sought to pass in an opposite direction; he would not suffer me; he, whom I sickened to touch, to see, threw himself in my way, and affected gibe and insult, nay even threat.
It was arranged that I should meet Houseman and Clarke at a certain spot in their way from the town, and there ! Houseman appeared at first fearful, lest I should relent and waver in my purpose. It is never so with men whose thoughts are deep and strong. To resolve was the arduous step once resolved, and I cast not a look behind. Houseman left me for the present. I could not rest in my chamber.
"Hold!" cried Aram, drawing back. "By what authority is this outrage, for what am I arrested?" "Behold," said Walter, speaking through his teeth, "behold our warrant! You are accused of murder! Know you the name of Richard Houseman, pause, consider, or that of Daniel Clarke?"
"What will be your address?" "In Lambeth there is a narrow alley that leads to the water-side, called Peveril Lane. The last house to the right, towards the river, is my usual lodging; a safe resting-place at all times, and for all men." "There then will I seek you. And now, Houseman, fare-you-well! As you remember your word to me, may life flow smooth for your child."
There, his own wife corroborating the testimony of Houseman, he was found guilty, and received sentence of death; notwithstanding a very artful and learned defence, in which he proved, from argument and example, the danger of convicting a man upon circumstantial evidence.
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