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"Yet that is the case, with some types especially, for men are so

different. You say 'evidence'. Well, there may be evidence. But

evidence, you know, can generally be taken two ways. I am an

examining lawyer and a weak man, I confess it. I should like to

make a proof, so to say, mathematically clear. I should like to

make a chain of evidence such as twice two are four, it ought to

be a direct, irrefutable proof! And if I shut him up too

soon--even though I might be convinced he was the man, I should

very likely be depriving myself of the means of getting further

evidence against him. And how? By giving him, so to speak, a

definite position, I shall put him out of suspense and set his

mind at rest, so that he will retreat into his shell. They say

that at Sevastopol, soon after Alma, the clever people were in a

terrible fright that the enemy would attack openly and take

Sevastopol at once.