The bells of Freiburg : . CHAPTER IV. INNOCENT AS THE BABE UNBORN. Y worst fears were realised. Thingsij^ did go against me in the trial;and, innocent as I was, I wasconvicted, on evidence which satis-fied everybody but one or twowho knew me too well for doubt, ofhaving stolen a bank-note worth 5,000thalers from his Grace the Archbishop. The points which chiefly went against mewere these :— 1st. The Archbishop had left the note on hisstudy-table ten minutes before I entered theroom ; it was gone when he looked for it on mydeparture. 2nd. It was proved that no one had been inthe room meantime b
The bells of Freiburg : . CHAPTER IV. INNOCENT AS THE BABE UNBORN. Y worst fears were realised. Thingsij^ did go against me in the trial;and, innocent as I was, I wasconvicted, on evidence which satis-fied everybody but one or twowho knew me too well for doubt, ofhaving stolen a bank-note worth 5,000thalers from his Grace the Archbishop. The points which chiefly went against mewere these :— 1st. The Archbishop had left the note on hisstudy-table ten minutes before I entered theroom ; it was gone when he looked for it on mydeparture. 2nd. It was proved that no one had been inthe room meantime besides myself, the key ofthe only door which communicated with the restof the palace (except the glass one into the INNOCENT AS THE BABE UNBORN. 45 garden) being as usual in his Graces no one but myself had entered from thegarden, was sworn to by the Archbishops house-steward who sent me there ; as he only, besideshis master, possessed a key to this private en-closure, and that he had lent to me. 3rd. In the
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