reasonable
doubt remains of his having been the hand which carried it there? No!
Where there is a reasonable doubt, no high-minded jury will convict;
and I claim that my client has made it plain that there is such a
reasonable doubt."

All this and more did Mr. Moffat dilate upon. But I could no longer fix
my mind on details, and much of this portion of his address escaped me.

But I do remember the startling picture with which he closed. His
argument so far, had been based on the assumption of Arthur's ignorance
of Carmers purpose in visiting the club-house, or of Adelaide's attempt
at suicide. His client had left the building when he said he did, and
knew no more of what happened there afterward than circumstances showed,
or his own imagination conceived. But now the advocate took a sudden
turn, and calmly asked the jury to consider with him the alternative
outlined by the prosecution in the evidence set before them.

"My distinguished opponent," said he, "would have you believe that the
defendant did not fly at the moment declared, but that he waited to
fulfil the foul deed which is the only serious matter in dispute in his
so nearly destroyed case. I hear as though he were now speaking, the
attack which he will make upon my client when he comes to review this
matter with you. Let me see if I cannot make you hear those words, too."
And with a daring smile at his discomforted adversary, Alonzo Moffat
launched forth into the following sarcasm:

"Arthur Cumberland, coming up the kitchen stairs, hears voices where he
had expected total silence--sees light where he had left total darkness.
He has two bottles in his hands, or in his large coat-pockets. If they
are in his hands, he sets them down and steals forward to listen. He has
recognised the voices. They are those of his two sisters, one of whom had
ordered him to hitch up the cutter for her to escape, as he had every
reason to believe, the other. Curiosity--or is it some nobler
feeling--causes him to draw nearer and nearer to the room in which they
have taken up their stand. He can hear their words now and what are the
words he hears? Words that would thrill the most impervious heart, call
for the interference of the most indifferent. But _he_ is made of ice,
welded together with steel. He sees--for no place save one from which he
can watch and see, _viz_.: the dark dancing hall, would satisfy any man
of such gigantic curiosity--Adelaide fall at Carmel's feet, in