friend in the wrong. I tried the experiment, at any rate.

"You seem to have forgotten," I reminded him, "that the child
will have every advantage that education can offer to her, and
will be accustomed from her earliest years to restraining and
purifying influences, in a clergyman's household."

Now that he was enjoying the fumes of tobacco, the Doctor was
as placid and sweet-tempered as a man could be.

"Quite true," he said.

"Do you doubt the influence of religion?" I asked sternly.

He answered, sweetly: "Not at all"

"Or the influence of kindness?"

"Oh, dear, no!"

"Or the force of example?"

"I wouldn't deny it for the world."

I had not expected this extraordinary docility. The Doctor had
got the upper hand of me again--a state of things that I might
have found it hard to endure, but for a call of duty which put
an end to our sitting. One of the female warders appeared with
a message from the condemned cell. The Prisoner wished to see
the Governor and the Medical Officer.