Masouda also swore that she now heard of it for the first time.

After this the secretary announced that there was no more evidence, and prayed of the Sultan to give judgment in the matter.
"Against which of us," asked Godwin, "seeing that both the dead and the living witness declared they heard but one voice, and whose that voice was they did not know?
According to your own law, you cannot condemn a man against whom there is no good testimony." "There is testimony against one of you," answered Saladin sternly, "that of two witnesses, as is required, and, as I have warned you long ago, that man shall die.

Indeed, both of you should die, for I am sure that both are guilty.

Still, you have been put upon your trial according to the law, and as a just judge I will not strain the law against you.

Let the guilty one die by beheading at sundown, the hour at which he planned to commit his crime.