But the word once said, he adhered positively to it, and even asserted it with quite unnecessary vehemence and persistence.
After such testimony there was but one verdict possible.

John Sabay was declared guilty of murder, and sentenced to death.

But there was still the same strange and unreasonable belief in his innocence, and the judge, with a peculiar stretch of clemency, ordered the sentence to be suspended until he could recommend the prisoner to his majesty's mercy.
A remarkable change now came over Dame Alison.

Her anger, her sense of wrong, her impatience, were over.

She had come now to where she could do nothing else but trust implicitly in God; and her mind, being thus stayed, was kept in a strange exultant kind of perfect peace.