"Yes, that was me.

I was acquitted, as you know, principally from the way in which Mr.
Ellison stood up for me.

Thank God that he never, for an instant, believed that I was guilty." "And to think it should be you!" Mr.Donald said.

"How strange things turn out! I remember I could not make up my mind about it.
It seemed so strange, either way." "We had better not talk about it now," Reuben said quietly.

"I said then, and I say now, that I knew the people who did it and, strange as the circumstances have already been, you may think them stranger still, some day, if I bring one of them before you, alive or dead." At this moment there was a knock at the door, and Mrs.Donald came in and said that one of the constabulary wished to speak to Reuben.
"Then I will say goodnight.