And it did not matter, anyway. He had killed neither Borg
nor his wife, that much he did know.
Frona prefaced her argument to the meeting with a pithy discourse on
the sacredness of human life, the weaknesses and dangers of
circumstantial evidence, and the rights of the accused wherever doubt
arose. Then she plunged into the evidence, stripping off the
superfluous and striving to confine herself to facts. In the first
place, she denied that a motive for the deed had been shown. As it
was, the introduction of such evidence was an insult to their
intelligence, and she had sufficient faith in their manhood and
perspicacity to know that such puerility would not sway them in the
verdict they were to give.
And, on the other hand, in dealing with the particular points at issue,
she denied that any intimacy had been shown to have existed between
Bella and St. Vincent; and she denied, further, that it had been shown
that any intimacy had been attempted on the part of St. Vincent.
Viewed honestly, the wash-tub incident--the only evidence brought
forward--was a laughable little affair, portraying how the simple
courtesy of a gentleman might be misunderstood by a mad boor of a
husband. She left it to their common sense; they were not fools.
They had striven to prove the prisoner bad-tempered. She did not need
to prove anything of the sort concerning John Borg.
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