text:  "_My_ picture was it that was held before Dansowich and by _you_ the murderer of his wife? Holy Virgin!" she exclaimed as the truth seemed to flash upon her "how has my faith in thee misled me! I beheld in this youth one sent by Heaven to aid me; but now I see that he was prompted by the powers of darkness to steal my portrait and thus become the instrument of destruction to the best and noblest of our race