"Perhaps we shall find him a better judge than you are lawyer." "He has had more experience, anyhow," said Colby, much amused at the shot.
They found, on arriving at court, that the case had already been postponed.

They drove to the jail and obtained permission to see the prisoner, who was incarcerated under the name of "Jack Andrews, alias A.
Jones." Maud would have liked a private audience, but the lawyer was present as well as Patsy and Mr.Merrick, and she did not like to ask them to go away.
The boy greeted them with his old frank smile and did not seem in the least oppressed by the fact that he was a prisoner accused of an ugly crime.

The interview was held in a parlor of the jail, a guard standing by the door but discreetly keeping out of earshot.
Colby first informed the boy of the postponement of his formal examination and then submitted to his client an outline of the defense he had planned.

Jones listened quietly and shook his head.
"Is that the best you can do for me ?" "With my present knowledge, yes," returned the lawyer.
"And will it clear me from this suspicion ?" was the next question.
"I hope so." "You are not sure ?" "This is an extraordinary case, Mr.Jones.Your friends all believe you innocent, but the judge wants facts--cold, hard facts--and only these will influence him.

Mr.Le Drieux, commissioned by the Austrian government, states that you are Jack Andrews, and have escaped to America after having stolen the pearls of a noble Viennese lady.