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The Evil Genius, 1The Evil Genius
Table of Contents

Before the Story
Miss Westerfield's Education
1-The Trial 2-The Sentence
3-The Letter 4-The Garret
5-The Landlord 6-The Brute
7-The Cipher 8-The Diamonds
9-The Mother 10-The School

The Story
First Book
Chapter I Chapter II Chapter III
Chapter IV Chapter V Chapter VI
Chapter VII Chapter VIII Chapter IX
Chapter X Chapter XI Chapter XII
Chapter XIII Chapter XIV



Affectionately Dedicated
to
Holman Hunt




THE EVIL GENIUS

BEFORE THE STORY.
MISS WESTERFIELD'S EDUCATION.
1.--The Trial.
THE gentlemen of the jury retired to consider their verdict.
Their foreman was a person doubly distinguished among his colleagues. He had the
clearest head, and the readiest tongue. For once the right man was in the right
place.
Of the eleven jurymen, four showed their characters on the surface. They were:
The hungry juryman, who wanted his dinner.
The inattentive juryman, who drew pictures on his blotting paper.
The nervous juryman, who suffered from fidgets.
The silent juryman, who decided the verdict.
Of the seven remaining members, one was a little drowsy man who gave no trouble;
one was an irritable invalid who served under protest; and five represented that
vast majority of the population--easily governed, tranquilly happy--which has no
opinion of its own.

The foreman took his place at the head of the table. His colleagues seated
themselves on either side of him. Then there fell upon that assembly of men a
silence, never known among an assembly of women--the silence which proceeds from