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The trial is over. Our tongues are now loosed; and we can speak. And we _will_ speak. The whole nation will speak, I doubt not, for William Stead, about whose noble sacrifice of himself there is only one opinion. It is not needful for me to add my mite of testimony to the character of that man, whom I am proud to have called my friend for many years.
What I have to do is to speak of REBECCA JARRETT. I am prompted to do so by my love and pity for her; and also in response to multitudes of letters pouring in upon me, from men and women alike, expressing an opinion of her differing very much from that given in all the "leaders" of the London Press on the morning after the verdict.