In Sight of St. Paul's — page 245: what you’re looking at

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240 WAITING FOR THE VERDICT. CHAPTER XVI. WAITING FOR TTHE VERDICT. The trial of Thomas Chichester for the ‘murder of his brother was. nearly over. For two days it had dragged along its slow length, days of unspeakable torture to those whose future happiness depended upon the verdict to be given by ‘those twelve good men and true.’ _ And yet, although for very different reasons, per- haps among. all of the spectators of the trial of this case, none was more deeply interested than the man who styled himself ‘*Captain’’ Gridston. This was quite natural. Why should not the man of all others who was most conversant with the true state of affairs, the man who had most reason to be afraid of his neck, watch the progress of the case with the most intense attention? ‘T’om Chichester condemned, he was safe; Tom Chichester acquitted, and the police again would be on the track of the murderer. | And, there were at least two, perhaps three, who knew who the real criminal was. Gridston had been to the hospital several times to Eomicbooks ((0)