[Mariamne is silent.

(To the Judges.) You see that all confession fails. Also

I’ve not the proofs as such that you will need.

But on a murderer once I saw you pass

The doom of death because the slain man’s jewel

Was found on him. It was no help that he

Had pointed to his cleanly-washen hands,

And none too that he swore the dead man gave it

As gift. You had the sentence executed.

Good then! It stands thus here. She has the jewel