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`` Yes . '' Patsy sat down and looked at the wreck . `` Now , a man who could put such a woman off , in such a storm , at such an hour , and with a grief like that , '' said Patsy to himself , `` would pasture a goat on his grandmother 's grave . '' * * * * * When Patsy woke at two o'clock that afternoon , he picked up a noon edition of an all-day paper , and the very first word he read was `` Not guilty . '' That was the heading of the police news . `` There was a pathetic scene in Judge Meyer 's court this morning at the preliminary hearing of the case of Terrence Cassidy , charged with the murder of the old farmer at Spring Bank on Monday last . All efforts to draw a confession from Cassidy had failed , and the detectives had come to the conclusion that he was either very innocent or very guilty -- there was no purgatory for Terrence ; it was heaven or the hot place , according to the detectives .