He melted into him and disappeared; and then there was a change, when his spirit began to look out of Wilhelm's eyes.
That lawyer finished quite seriously, and with dignity.

He pointed to the money, and said: "The love of it is the root of all evil.

There it lies, the ancient tempter, newly red with the shame of its latest victory--the dishonor of a priest of God and his two poor juvenile helpers in crime.

If it could but speak, let us hope that it would be constrained to confess that of all its conquests this was the basest and the most pathetic." He sat down.

Wilhelm rose and said: "From the testimony of the accuser I gather that he found this money in a road more than two years ago.