1 If it be not true, then proof will be relief; at worst it will not harm.
2 These things are we told, and in this record of ours we have proof by inference.
3 We could hardly ask any one, even did we wish to, to accept these as proofs of so wild a story.
4 The proof of this, is the letter of instructions sent to Immanuel Hildesheim to clear and take away the box before sunrise.
5 Even had we not the proof of our own unhappy experience, the teachings and the records of the past give proof enough for sane peoples.
6 But these things are no proof, for they may have been evidences that my mind was not as usual, and, from some cause or another, I had certainly been much upset.
7 I had myself been apprenticed by my former visits to this watching horror; and yet I, who had up to an hour ago repudiated the proofs, felt my heart sink within me.
8 When later I saw him through the chink of the hinges of the door laying the table in the dining-room, I was assured of it; for if he does himself all these menial offices, surely it is proof that there is no one else to do them.
9 Already, however, the legal tongues are wagging, and one young law student is loudly asserting that the rights of the owner are already completely sacrificed, his property being held in contravention of the statutes of mortmain, since the tiller, as emblemship, if not proof, of delegated possession, is held in a dead hand.