Also let two men be set to dig the prisoner's grave in the burial-place at the back of the house." The guards laid their hands upon the old man's shoulders, and he turned and went with them without a word.

Through her crack in the wall Bessie watched him go till the dear old head with its fringe of white hairs and the bent frame were no more visible.

Then at last, benumbed and exhausted by the horrors she was passing through, her faculties failed her, and she fell forward in a faint there upon the sacks.
Meanwhile Muller was writing the death-warrant on a sheet of his pocket-book.

At the foot he left a space for his own signature, but for reasons of his own he did not sign.

What he did do was to pass the book round to be countersigned by all who had formed the court in this mock trial, his object being to implicate every one there present in the judicial murder by the direct and incontrovertible evidence of his sign-manual.