I'm Keith Morrison and this is episode 3 of Wilkie Collins, the Dead Alive. Our narrator attorney Philip La Frank dead alive.

Our narrator, attorney Philip Lefranc, is far from his London home, but he finds himself in a familiar

place, a courtroom.

He's watching his American relatives.

Brothers Ambrose and Silas Medicroft prepared to stand trial for the murder of John Jago.

The evidence is stacked against them. It was well known that the brothers

despised Jago. And the very day after they were seen and heard threatening him, a

pile of bones was discovered, burned in a lime pit on the family's farm, along with

Jago's knife, buttons from his jacket, and the apparent murder weapon, Ambrose Meadowcroft's heavy wooden walking stick.

Now, Naomi is beside herself with worry.

Philip does what he can to help the defense and comfort that

distraught young woman. The dead alive resumes. Chapter 7. The materials in the defense.

On our way to the chairs allotted to us in the magistrate's court, we passed the platform on which the prisoners were standing together.

Sigh of us took no notice of us.

Ambrose made a friendly sign of recognition and then rested his

hand on the bar in front of him. As she passed beneath him, Naomi was just tall enough to reach his hand on tiptoe and she took

it.

I know you're innocent, she whispered and gave him one look of loving encouragement as she followed me to her place.

Ambrose never lost his self-control.

I may have been wrong, but I thought this a bad sign.

The case, as stated for the prosecution, was told strongly against the suspected men.

Ambrose and Silas Metacroft were against the suspected men.

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