It would be an admission of error, you see, and so the judge will prefer to find him guilty.

It is this same judge--Wilton, I think his name is--who will conduct the formal examination, and to-day he openly sneered at the mention of Sangoa.

On the other hand, he evidently believed every statement made by Le Drieux about the identity of the pearls found in Jones' possession.

Le Drieux has a printed list of the Ahmberg pearls, and was able to check the Jones' pearls off this list with a fair degree of accuracy.

It astonished even me, and I could see that Jones was equally amazed." "Wouldn't it be queer if they convicted him!" exclaimed Beth.
"It would be dreadful, since he is innocent," said Patsy.
"There is no need to worry about that just at present," Arthur assured them.