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The remaining details of the crime, as far as circumstantial evidence revealed them, told a story which was truly horrifying. The dumb evidence given by foot prints, blood-stains, broken tree branches, was terrible to reflect upon.
The blood-stains were very slight, mere smears and discolorations, but undoubtedly fresh. The stick had been removed, but there also the marks were slight. There is no doubt about the stick belonging to our client. He admits it. Footmarks of both men could be made out on the carpet, but none of any third person, which again is a trick for the other side.
"By my initials in indelible ink, on the right sleeve, where I placed them." "There are stains on the collar of the robe. What are they?" "Blood-stains." "Human blood?" "Yes, sir." "How do you know?" "I have had them tested." "Did any blood come from the corpse?" "No, sir; the skin of the neck was not broken." "Where, then, in your opinion, did this blood come from?"
Of blood-stains also he spoke how the skilled hunter may see at a glance if blood be dark and frothy, which means a mortal hurt, or thin and clear, which means that the arrow has struck a bone. "By such signs," said he, "you will surely know whether to lay on the hounds and cast down the blinks which hinder the stricken deer in its flight.
But as if to emphasize the indelibleness of blood-stains, however justly inflicted, we have as a foil to Miriam the white sensitiveness of Hilda's conscience, which makes her though perfectly free from even the indirect responsibility of Miriam believe herself actually infected.
A crow had alighted and examined the blood-stains, and now, if he will look a little farther along, upon a flat rock he will find the flesh he was looking for. Our hound's nose was so blunted now, speaking without metaphor, that he would not look at another trail, but hurried home to rest upon his laurels. I have thought that a good test of civilization, perhaps one of the best, is country life.
"Look at the blood-stains on this cane," said Ditty triumphantly, as he handed it over to the captain. There were, in truth, dark red stains on the end of the cane, standing out clearly in contrast with the light oak color of the stick itself. "That's where the cut on Mr. Drew's head come from, jest as I says," proclaimed Ditty.
And when that Rakshasa woman, senseless with grief and with dry blood-stains on her face, appeared before Ravana, she fell down at his feet. And beholding her so horribly mutilated, Ravana became senseless with wrath and grinding his teeth sprung up from his seat.
He was not usually, he explained, so open of assault, but sat silent on the house-top waiting, in the guise of a bird, while within the people tended the dying and bewailed the dead, and had no thought of peril. But when the day came and the doors were opened, and men began to go abroad, blood-stains on the wall betrayed the tragedy. This is the quality I admire in Paumotuan legend.
Upon his body was the same coarse sackcloth which he had on when he was arraigned before the court, but now it was covered with dark blood-stains, because, that day when the fight ended, only when maddened with pain the frantic knight was entangled in the net, the soldiers then tried to kill him, struck him with their halberds and inflicted upon him numerous wounds.
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