"I didn't know but that they might took and hang me for seeing it.

I told mammy the other night, and mammy she came and told the gent there," pointing one finger at the counsel for the crown, "and he said I must come and tell it here; and that's all I've got to tell, and I'm werry sorry as hever I seed it, and it's all true, s'help me!" Sybilla Silver's eyes fairly blazed with triumphant fire.

Her master, the arch-fiend, seemed visibly coming to her aid; and the most miserable baronet pressed his hand to his throbbing head.
There was the summing up of the evidence--one damning mass against the prisoner.

There was the judge's charge to the jury.

Sir Everard heard no words--saw nothing.