Long practice and much natural inclination had taught Mallalieu the art of thinking ahead, and he could foresee as well as any man of his acquaintance.

He foresaw the trend of events in this affair.

This was only a preliminary.

The prosecution was charging him and Cotherstone with the murder of Stoner today: it would be charging them with the murder of Kitely tomorrow.
Myler's evidence caused a profound sensation in court--but there was even more sensation and more excitement when Myler's father-in-law followed him in the witness-box.

It was literally in a breathless silence that the old man told the story of the crime of thirty years ago; it was a wonderfully dramatic moment when he declared that in spite of the long time that had elapsed he recognized the Mallalieu and Cotherstone of Highmarket as the Mallows and Chidforth whom he had known at Wilchester.
Even then Mallalieu had not flinched.