“I will listen to all the party’s testimony with due diligence, look upon the evidence dispassionately and without bias, then weigh all the factors to arrive at a verdict that supports Mrs. Gamboge’s initial finding: that her son’s death was foul and unnatural and that the perpetrators be punished forthwith.” “You have already made up your mind?” asked Carlos as he glanced at me. “I am not here to impugn upon the word of a much-respected Yellow,” he said. “I am here merely as a formality.





