His evidence would probably have cleared you at once.

As it is, of course we believe your story, my boy.

The question is, will the jury believe it ?" "I don't seem to care much whether they do or not," Ned said sadly, "unless we find the man who did it.

Every one will think me guilty even if I am acquitted.

Fancy going on living all one's life and knowing that everyone one meets is thinking to himself, 'That is the man who killed his stepfather'-- it would be better to be hung at once." "You must look at it in a more hopeful way than that, Ned," Mr.Porson said kindly; "many will from the first believe, with us, that you are innocent.