Read the excerpt from frank r. stockton's "the lady, or the tiger? " and answer the question that follows. when all the people had assembled in the galleries, and the king, surrounded by his court, sat high up on his throne of royal state on one side of the arena, he gave a signal, a door beneath him opened, and the accused subject stepped out into the amphitheater. directly opposite him, on the other side of the enclosed space, were two doors, exactly alike and side by side. it was the duty and the privilege of the person on trial to walk directly to these doors and open one of them. he could open either door he ; he was subject to no guidance or influence but that of the afore-mentioned impartial and incorruptible chance. if he opened the one, there came out of it a hungry tiger, the fiercest and most cruel that could be procured, which immediately sprang upon him and tore him to pieces as punishment for his guilt. the moment that the case of the criminal was thus decided, doleful iron bells were clanged, great wails went up from the hired mourners posted on the outer rim of the arena, and the vast audience, with bowed heads and downcast hearts, wended slowly their homeward way, mourning greatly that one so fair and young, or so old and respected, should have merited so dire a fate. in the excerpt, what decides the guilt or innocence of the accused person? works cited stockton, frank r. "the lady, or the tiger? " a chosen few. charles scribner’s sons, 1895. a contest evidence the king's decision chance