If you had reported as many murder trials as I have, you would have known beforehand what line he would take. And I was right, up to a point.

This was not one of those cases of circumstantial evidence in which you feel the jurymen`s anxiety -because mistakes have been made - like domes of silence muting the court.

But before he moved away, he had looked up - at her window.

Mr Wheeler...was wakened by a noise - like a chair falling - through the thin-as-paper villa wall...

the man you saw ... was the prisoner - and not this man, who is his twin brother?

And the brother? He had his alibi, too; he was with his wife.

But whether - if he did the murder and not his brother - he was punished or not,

He was even dressed the same - tight blue suit and striped tie.

The fatal instinct that tells a man when he is watched exposed him in the light of a street-lamp to her gaze - his eyes suffused with horrifying and brutal fear, like an animal's when you raise a whip.

One of them - no one knew which - said, "I've been
acquitted, haven't";