"But if you found it on the road, how do you account for the fact that it has your name stamped on the corner of it? See--_Bessie_." Bessie was speechless for another moment. Then she said, "Bessie is a common name, isn't it?" "But how do you account for the further fact that these two pieces fit each other exactly?" asked the Attorney--laying the narrow strip by the broader portion. Bessie became dizzy and confused. "I can't account for it. I know nothing about it," she said. The Deemster, who was breathing with difficulty, asked the Attorney what he suggested by the exhibits. The Attorney answered, "The larger piece, your Honour, is the scarf which the body of the child was found in, while the narrower one was discovered in the prisoner's room, and the suggestion is that, taken together, they form a chain of convincing evidence that she is guilty of the crime with which she is charged." Gell leapt to his feet. He had recognised the scarf as a present of his own on Bessie's last birthday, and his great faith in the girl was breaking down, yet in a husky voice he said, "Give her time, your Honour. She may have some explanation." The Deemster signified assent, and then Gell, stepping closer to the witness-box, said, "Be calm and think again. Don't answer hastily. Everything depends on your reply. Are you sure the scarf was not yours and that you lost the larger piece of it? Think carefully, I beg, I pray." The advocate was losing himself, yet nobody protested. At length Bessie, with the wild eyes of a captured animal, broke into violent cries. "Oh, why are you all torturing me? Wasn't it enough to torture my mother? I know nothing about it." Gell dropped back to his seat. There was a profound silence. The great clock of the Castle was heard to strike four. The Deemster felt as if every stroke were beating on his brain. At length he said, "A new fact has been introduced by the prosecution and it is only right that the defence should have time to consider it. It is now four o'clock. The Court will adjourn until morning. It is not for me to anticipate the evidence which the accused may give when the Court resumes, but if in the interval she can remember anything which will put a new light on the serious fact the Attorney-General has just disclosed, nothing she has said in her agitation to-day shall prejudice what she may say to-morrow." He paused for a moment and then (with difficulty maintaining an equal voice) he added, "It sometimes happens that a young woman in the position of the accused mistakes concealment for the much more serious crime of murder." He paused again and then said, "Whatever the facts in this unhappy case may prove to be, if I may speak to that mystery of a woman's heart which is truly said to be sacred even in its shame, I will say, 'Tell the truth, the whole truth; it will be best for you, best for everybody.'"