feeling. On the contrary, they were all for Angela and the dog
Aleck who was supposed to have chocked that "carroty warmint," George.

The inquest on George's body was held at Roxham, and was the object of
the greatest possible interest. Indeed, the public excitement was so
great that the coroner was, perhaps insensibly, influenced by it, and
allowed the inquiry to travel a little beyond its professed object of
ascertaining the actual cause of death, with the result that many of
the details of the wicked plot from which Angela had been the
principal sufferer became public property. Needless to say that they
did not soothe the feelings of an excited crowd. When Philip, after
spending one of the worst half-hours of his life in the witness-box,
at length escaped with such shreds of reputation as he had hitherto
possessed altogether torn off his back, his greeting from the mob
outside the court may fairly be described as a warm one. As the
witnesses' door closed behind him, he found himself at one end of a
long lane, that was hedged on both sides by faces not without a touch
of ferocity about them, and with difficulty kept clear by the
available force of the five Roxham policemen.

"Who sold his daughter?" shouted a great fellow in his ear.

"Let me come, there's a dear man, and have a look at Judas," said a
skinny little woman with a squint, to an individual who blocked her
view.

The crowd caught at the word. "Judas!" it shouted, "go and hang
yourself! Judas! Judas!"

How Philip got out of that he never quite knew, but he did get out
somehow.

Meanwhile, Sir John Bellamy was being examined in court, and,
notwithstanding the almost aggressive innocence of his appearance, he
was not having a very good time. It chanced that he had fallen into
the hands of a rival lawyer, who hated him like poison, and had good
reason to hate him. It is wonderful, by the way, how enemies do spring
up round a man in trouble like dogs who bite a wounded companion to
death, and on the same principle. He is defenceless. This gentleman
would insist on conducting the witnesses' examination on the basis
that he knew all about the fraud practised with reference to the
supposed death of Arthur Heigham. Now, it will be remembered that Sir
John, in his last interview with Lady Bellamy, had declared that there
was no tittle of evidence against him, and that it would be impossible
to implicate him in the exposure that must overtake her. To a certai