Lady or the Tiger? cliff hanger revealed

He turned, and with firm and rapid steps he walked across the empty space. Every heart stopped beating, every breath was held, every eye was fixed immovably upon that man. Without the slightest hesitation, he went to the door on the right, and opened it.
Every head was fixed on the prince in amazement, for the tiger had approached him without savageness. Instead, the tiger laid his body in the tawny grit and stretched his massive, striped body across the foot of the peasant. The peasant was as unaware of these sercomstances as the dumb-founded citizens in the oval arena were.
Silence had surged over the people, for no one had ever seen a sight such as this. What were they to think of a man found guilty by their justice system and yet, not be punished for his crime? At this sight the air seemed to have turned to a ...