They were drawn up in a row on the left side of the church, and wore a species of white cassock, resembling the dress of a penitentiary.

All eyes being bent on them, several of this band seemed so much disconcerted as to excite among the spectators strong prepossessions of their guilt.

The real murderer had a countenance incapable of betraying him--a sullen, dark look, which neither the feast nor wine cup could enliven, and which the peril of discovery and death could not render dejected.
We have already noticed the posture of the dead body.

The face was bare, as were the breast and arms.

The rest of the corpse was shrouded in a winding sheet of the finest linen, so that, if blood should flow from any place which was covered, it could not fail to be instantly manifest.
High mass having been performed, followed by a solemn invocation to the Deity, that He would be pleased to protect the innocent, and make known the guilty, Eviot, Sir John Ramorny's page, was summoned to undergo the ordeal.