— — —Two days after his arrest Pastor Morl was charged at Bow Street before the magistrate, Mr. Miles Clinner, with the murder of Martha Owen on the night of the 24th of December, and was remanded for a week, leaving public curiosity, as it were, to hang in space, and public fantasy to hint in darkness.
The prisoner had made but a moment’s appearance in the dock at Bow Street. The eager spectators who had crowded the court had had only a glimpse of a tall, young foreigner who, it was obvious, kept his face, with an effort, expressionless, who was well-dressed and well-barbered, and who possessed, as was instantly noticed by everyone present, that peculiar, almost indefinable type of comeliness known as romantic good looks.
Belle had been present. She had studied the prisoner’s pale, comp
