By his truth and almightiness, and by the love with which he hath followed Israel from the beginning, I swear I am innocent!" The tribune was much moved.
"O noble Roman!" continued Ben-Hur, "give me a little faith, and, into my darkness, deeper darkening every day, send a light!" Arrius turned away, and walked the deck.
"Didst thou not have a trial ?" he asked, stopping suddenly.
"No!" The Roman raised his head, surprised.
"No trial--no witnesses! Who passed judgment upon thee ?" Romans, it should be remembered, were at no time such lovers of the law and its forms as in the ages of their decay.
"They bound me with cords, and dragged me to a vault in the Tower.
I saw no one.

No one spoke to me.

Next day soldiers took me to the seaside.

I have been a galley-slave ever since." "What couldst thou have proven ?" "I was a boy, too young to be a conspirator.

Gratus was a stranger to me.