Enough that at the close of the sixth day, the outlook was a serious one for Arthur Cumberland.

The prosecution appeared to be making good its claims.

The quiet and unexpectedly dignified way in which, at the beginning, the defendant had faced the whole antagonistic court-room, with the simple plea of "Not Guilty," was being slowly but surely forgotten in the accumulated proofs of his discontented life under his sister's dominating influence, his desire for independence and a free use of the money held in trust for him by this sister under their father's will, the quarrels which such a situation would naturally evoke between characters cast in such different moulds and actuated by such opposing tastes and principles, and the final culmination of the same at the dinner-table when Adelaide forced him, as it were, to subscribe to her prohibition of all further use of liquor in their house.

Following this evidence of motive, came the still more damaging one of opportunity.

He was shown to have been in the club-house at or near the time of Adelaide's death.