Then the departure--the locking of the front door behind the perpetrator; the flight of the grey horse and cutter through the blinding storm; the blowing off of the driver's hat; the identification of the same by means of the flour-mark left on its brim by the mechanic's wife; the presence of a portion of one of the two abstracted bottles in the stable where the horse was put up; and the appearance of Arthur with the other bottle at the door of the inn in Cuthbert Road, just as the clock was striking half-past eleven.
This latter fact might have been regarded as proving an alibi, owing to the length of road between the Cumberland house and the place just mentioned, if there had not been a short cut to town open to him by means of a door in the wall separating the Cumberland and Fulton grounds--a door which was found unlocked, and with the key in it, by Zadok Brown, the coachman, when he came home about three next morning.
All this stood; not an item of this testimony could be shaken.

Most of it was true; some of it false; but what was false, so unassailable by any ordinary means, that, as I have already said, the clouds seemed settling heavily over Arthur Cumberland when, at the end of the sixth day, the proceedings closed.
The night that followed was a heavy one for me.

Then came the fateful morrow, and, after that, the day of days destined to make a life-long impression on all who attended this trial.
XXV "I AM INNOCENT" All is oblique, There's nothing level in our cursed natures, But direct villainy.

Therefore, be abhorred All feasts, societies, and throngs of men! His semblable, yea, himself, Timon disdains.
_Timon of Athens_.
I was early in my seat.

Feeling the momentousness of the occasion--for this day must decide my action for or against the prisoner--I searched the faces of the jury, of the several counsel, and of the judge.