Then the public read avidly articles by specially retained barristers on the extradition treaties with Brazil, Argentina, Ecuador, Chili, Paraguay and Uruguay.
The curates Matthew and Henry preached to crowded congregations at Putney and Bermondsey, and were reported verbatim in the _Christian Voice Sermon Supplement_, and other messengers of light.
And gradually the nose of England bent closer and closer to its newspaper of a morning.

And coffee went cold, and bacon fat congealed, from the Isle of Wight to Hexham, while the latest rumours were being swallowed.

It promised to be stupendous, did the case of Witt _v_.
Parfitts.

It promised to be one of those cases that alone make life worth living, that alone compensate for the horrors of climate, in England.

And then the day of hearing arrived, and the afternoon papers which appear at nine o'clock in the morning announced that Henry Leek (or Priam Farll, according to your wish) and his wife (or his female companion and willing victim) had returned to Werter Road.