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Who's sure of Life's game, When Fate interferes? For praise or for blame, Who's sure of life's game? A sentence -- a name, Turns joy into tears, Who's sure of Life's game, When Fate interferes?
This strange case -- particulars of which in some mysterious way got into the daily papers -- excited much curiosity in London, and when the preliminary inquiry into the affair took place, the court was crowded to suffocation. The public, of course, learned all about the matter from the newspapers, but how the reporters managed to learn so much was most extraordinary, as they gave an account of Mrs. Belswin's previous life -- of her presence, under a false name, in the house of her late husband -- of the murder of that husband -- and of the wonderful amount of money realised by the sale of the Pole Star shares for the daughter of the murdered man, and the woman accused of the crime. All this, more or less garbled and exaggerated, appeared in the leading morning papers, and the "Pethram Paradox" -- so it was called -- took a prominent place among the sensations of the day.