In his case, as well as in Radnor's, the past was speaking.

Through all his life, they said, he had faithfully loved and served the Colonel, and if necessity required, he would willingly have died for him.
But for myself, I continued to believe in the face of all opposition, that Mose was guilty.

It was more a matter of feeling with me than of reasoning.

I had always been suspicious of the fellow; a man with eyes like that was capable of anything.

The objection which the sheriff raised that Colonel Gaylord was both larger and stronger than Mose and could easily have overcome him, proved nothing to my mind.