Strona 129 z 483

She then related that, by the permission of Elizabeth, she had

passed the evening of the night on which the murder had been

committed at the house of an aunt at Chene, a village situated at

about a league from Geneva. On her return, at about nine o'clock,

she met a man who asked her if she had seen anything of the child

who was lost. She was alarmed by this account and passed several

hours in looking for him, when the gates of Geneva were shut, and

she was forced to remain several hours of the night in a barn

belonging to a cottage, being unwilling to call up the

inhabitants, to whom she was well known. Most of the night she

spent here watching; towards morning she believed that she slept

for a few minutes; some steps disturbed her, and she awoke. It

was dawn, and she quitted her asylum, that she might again

endeavour to find my brother. If she had gone near the spot where

his body lay, it was without her knowledge.