Lookers-on many times see more than gamesters. Bacon.
[67. Who is the Heir?]
John Morgan’s sister, of course!
Let us consider the reason of the case. For nothing is law that is not reason. Powell.
[68. The Professor Stops a Blunder]
Mundy had been unexpectedly called to Washington. Skidder’s secretary said the note was habitually kept at the office. Mundy, therefore, could not possibly have known of Skidder’s intention of taking it home. That was exactly the weakness in the case of the police. Despite the damning circumstantial evidence, motive could not be proved unless it could be shown that Mundy knew the note would be at Skidder’s house.
How little do they see what is, who frame
Their hasty judgments upon that which seems.
Southey.