Two moles together brought the house down.
Mr.Crepitude leaned over to a solicitor in front of him; the solicitor leaned aside to a solicitor's clerk, and the solicitor's clerk whispered to Priam Farll, who nodded.
"Er----" Mr.Crepitude was beginning again, but he stopped and said to Duncan Farll, "Thank you.

You can step down." Then a witness named Justini, a cashier at the Hotel de Paris, Monte Carlo, swore that Priam Farll, the renowned painter, had spent four days in the Hotel de Paris one hot May, seven years ago, and that the person in the court whom the defendant stated to be Priam Farll was not that man.

No cross-examination could shake Mr.Justini.Following him came the manager of the Hotel Belvedere at Mont Pelerin, near Vevey, Switzerland, who related a similar tale and was equally unshaken.
And after that the pictures themselves were brought in, and the experts came after them and technical evidence was begun.

Scarcely had it begun when a clock struck and the performance ended for the day.

The principal actors doffed their costumes, and snatched up the evening papers to make sure that the descriptive reporters had been as eulogistic of them as usual.