Solution—The Premonition

Had Sherrod been entirely innocent there would have been no reason for him to have made the statement that he arrived at the lodge ten minutes after his wife, when he could not possibly have known at what time she did arrive! This one little slip started him on his way to the gallows.

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IN GENERAL, TREACHERY, THO’ AT FIRST SUFFICIENTLY CAUTIOUS, YET IN THE END BETRAYS ITSELF.

—Livy