d sold that particular weapon to Peytel."

Does it follow, from this, that Louis Rey is not the murderer, much
more, that Peytel is? Look at argument No. 1. Rey had no need to kill
two people: he wanted the money, and not the blood. Suppose he had
killed Peytel, would he not have mastered Madame Peytel easily?--a weak
woman, in an excessively delicate situation, incapable of much energy,
at the best of times.

2. "He does not fire till he knows his master's eyes are open." Why, on
a stormy night, does a man driving a carriage go to sleep? Was Rey to
wait until his master snored? "He fires at six paces, not caring whom he
hits;"--and might not this happen too? The night is not so dark but
that he can see his master, in HIS USUAL PLACE, driving. He fires and
hits--whom? Madame Peytel, who had left her place, AND WAS WRAPPED UP
WITH PEYTEL IN HIS CLOAK. She screams out, "Husband, take your pistols."
Rey knows that his master has a brace, thinks that he has hit the wrong
person, and, as Peytel fires on him, runs away. Peytel follows, hammer
in hand; as he comes up with the fugitive, he deals him a blow on
the back of the head, and Rey falls--his face to the ground. Is there
anything unnatural in this story?--anything so monstrously unnatural,
that is, that it might not be true?

3. These objections are absurd. Why need a man have change of linen?
If he had taken none for the journey, why should he want any for the
escape? Why need he drive two carriages?--He might have driven both into
the river, and Mrs. Peytel in one. Why is he to go to the douane, and
thrust himself into the very jaws of danger? Are there not a thousand
ways for a man to pass a frontier? Do smugglers, when they have to pass
from one country to another, choose exactly those spots where a police
is placed?

And, finally, the gunsmith of Lyons, who knows Peytel quite well, cannot
say that he sold the pistol to him; that is, he did NOT sell the pistol
to him; for you have only one man's word, in this case (Peytel's), to
the contrary; and the testimony, as far as it goes, is in his favor.
I say, my lud, and gentlemen of the jury, that these objections of my
learned friend, who is engaged for the Crown, are absurd, frivolous,
monstrous; that to SUSPECT away the life of a man upon such suppositions
as these, is wicked, illegal, and inhuman; and, what is more, that Louis
Rey, if he wanted to commit the crime--if he wanted to possess himself
of a large sum of