And he told with a sort of shamefaced pride of how he had got a good old deacon to give, in all sincerity, the evidence that exculpated him.
"Acres of Diamonds"
Russell H. Conwell
The old man I at once exculpated, for every day showed him less and less alive to the business of "the House;" though, from habit, he persisted in coming down every morning to the office, and believed himself the guide and director of all that went on there.
"That Boy Of Norcott's"
Charles James Lever
To think," he reflected aloud as the waiter filled his glass, "of the Manderson mystery disposed of, the innocent exculpated, and your own and Mabel's happiness crowned-all coming upon me together!
"The Woman in Black"
Edmund Clerihew Bentley