— — —Belle bought an evening paper and, by the candlelight in her wretched little room, pondered over it deeply. The case that had been to the curious only a nine days wonder, and in which no great popular interest had ever been taken, had suddenly achieved a considerable notoriety by the arrest of such an unlikely person as the suspect doctor. The information given to the Press was, however, scanty; there was no description of the unfortunate German — merely a comment on his worthy profession, responsible position, and his unblemished respectability.
Belle folded up the paper and smiled — not one of those elegant and artificial smiles, with which she was wont to arm herself against the crowd, but an unconscious smile of gratified power, of expectant hope. With an instant exercise, howeve
