You and I know that he died of sheer fright, and we know also what frightened him, but how are we to get twelve stolid jurymen to know it?
What signs are there of a hound?
Where are the marks of its fangs?
Of course we know that a hound does not bite a dead body and that Sir Charles was dead before ever the brute overtook him.

But we have to prove all this, and we are not in a position to do it." "Well, then, tonight ?" "We are not much better off tonight.

Again, there was no direct connection between the hound and the man's death.

We never saw the hound.

We heard it, but we could not prove that it was running upon this man's trail.