after-hand

Updated: May 13, 2025

Who had sought, with such patient cunning, to upset those evidential principles by which blind Justice gropes her hesitating way to Truth? In concocting his masterpiece of malignant ingenuity the murderer had worked alone. His only accomplice apart from the after-hand of Fate was a piece of automatic mechanism which had done his bidding secretly, and would never have betrayed him.

Arthur J. (Arthur John) Rees - The Hand in the Dark