Mr. Lorry handed him a paper through the throng. `Quick! Have you got it?'

`Yes, sir!'

Hastily written on the paper was the word `ACQUITTED'.

`If you had sent the message, "Recalled to Life," again, muttered Jerry, as he turned, `I should have known what you meant, this time.'

He had no opportunity of saying, or so much as thinking, anything else, until he was clear of the Old Bailey; for, the crowd came pouring out with a vehemence that nearly took him off his legs, and a loud buzz swept into the street as if the baffled blue-flies were dispersing in search of other carrion.