— — —Dr. Schoppe and his two friends, who had arrived at the police station five minutes before to visit him, having come by train straight from Der König von Bayern, then at Ramsgate Harbour, were brought up from the cells, and bewildered and on guard, though resolute, confronted with Mr. Matchwell’s witnesses, who crowded the small antechamber to the police-court.
Belle scarcely glanced at Dr. Schoppe nor at one of his companions — a man about his own age and something of his complexion, pompously dressed and agitated in manner Her glance fell long and searchingly on the third foreigner — a tall, dark young man, in a black overcoat, who stood with his hat in his hand and stared about him as if utterly uncomprehending the scene or the circumstance.
It was to this young man that four of
