Moreover," I added slowly, "of this I am sure, that in a time to come, although it be not to-morrow or the next day, you and everyone who has to do with this case will find that I have not called Him in vain." At these words for a few moments a solemn silence fell upon the Court.
It was as though they had gone home to the heart of everyone who was present there.

Also I saw the curtains that draped a gallery high up in the wall shake a little.

It came into my mind that Irene herself was hidden behind those curtains, as afterwards I learned was the case, and that she had made some movement which caused them to tremble.
"Well," said the president, after this pause, "as God does not appear to be your witness, and as you have no other, seeing that you cannot give evidence yourself under the law, we will now proceed to judgment." "Who says that the General Olaf, Olaf Red-Sword, has no witness ?" exclaimed a deep voice at the end of the hall.

"I am here to be his witness." "Who speaks ?" asked the president.

"Let him come forward." There was a disturbance at the end of the hall, and through the crowd that he seemed to throw before him to right and left appeared the mighty form of Jodd.