"
"As usual, nothing I say is right. It was to be expected that you
would take the part of the Caillauds."
Zachariah did not reply. It was supper-time; the chapter from the
Bible was duly read, the prayer duly prayed, and husband and wife
afterwards once more, each in turn, silently at the bedside, with
more or less of sincerity or pathos, sought Him who was the Maker of
both. It struck Zachariah during his devotions--a rather unwelcome
interruption--that his wife as well as himself was in close
communication with the Almighty.
CHAPTER XV--END OF THE BEGINNING
The trial took place at Lancaster. Zachariah was sorely tempted to
go; but, in the first place, he had no money, and, in the second
place, he feared arrest. Not that he would have cared two pins if he
had been put into jail; but he could not abandon his wife. He was
perfectly certain what the result would be, but nevertheless, on the
day when the news was due, he could not rest. There was a mail coach
which ran from Lancaster to Liverpool, starting from Lancaster in the
afternoon and reaching Liverpool between eleven and twelve at night.
He went out about that time and loitered about the coach-office as if
he were waiting for a friend.
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