"Next, to deliver a message from the Governor."
"Yes?"
"He has postponed the Court for three days in the hope that you may be able to sit then."
"Ah!"
"My last errand was to see the mother of that poor girl who is to be charged with the murder of her child."
"The mother?"
"Yes, I've just left her. She still says she knows nothing. It's pitiful! A simple, sincere, religious old soul, who has seen trouble of her own apparently. I don't think for a moment she would tell an untruth, yet it is easy to see that in her heart she believes her daughter to be guilty."
"Guilty?"
"Yes, but there's somebody guiltier than the girl—the man."
Stowell was silent; but he felt his face twitching.