CHAPTER V
MATERIAL PROOFS
WHEN THE MAGISTRATE had again taken his place, like a man who considered he was perfectly master of himself, he leaned back in his chair, and with his head raised and his eyes looking straight in front, as though not even noticing the accused, remarked, in a tone of the most perfect indifference:
"Go on."
Joam Dacosta reflected for a minute as if hesitating to resume the order of his thoughts, and then answered as follows:
"Up to the present, sir, I have only given you moral presumptions of my innocence grounded on the dignity, propriety, and honesty of the whole of my life. I should have thought that such proofs were those most worthy of being brought forward in matters of justice."
Judge Jarriquez could not restrain a movement of his shoulders, showing tha
