I cannot believe that it was any part of his intention to make the destruction of the register appear to be the result of accident, by purposely setting the vestry on fire. The bare chance that prompt assistance might arrive, and that the books might, by the remotest possibility, be saved, would have been enough, on a moment’s consideration, to dismiss any idea of this sort from his mind. Remembering the quantity of combustible objects in the vestry⁠—the straw, the papers, the packing-cases, the dry wood, the old worm-eaten presses⁠—all the probabilities, in my estimation, point to the fire as the result of an accident with his matches or his light.