Then Carnac bowed again and left the Court with--it was plain--the goodwill of most people present.
Carnac returned to his office with angry feelings at his heart.

The Belloc man ought to have been arrested for manslaughter, he thought.

In any case, he had upheld the honour of John Grier's firm by his protest, and the newspapers spoke not unfavourably of him in their reports.

They said he was a man of courage to say what he did, though it was improper, from a legal standpoint.

But human nature was human nature! The trial took place in five days, and Carnac was fined twenty-five cents, which was in effect a verdict of not guilty; and so the newspapers said.