I entered the room with the sergeant almost at the moment when the struggle ended, and as no one has touched the table since, it is clear that they cannot have been here.

Perhaps I may find them on the table downstairs.

It is now," he said, turning to Jack, "my duty to inform you that you are in custody for the deliberate murder of Count Smerskoff, as sworn to by him in his last moments." "He was a liar when he was alive," Jack said, "and he died with a falsehood on his lips.

However, sir, we are at your orders." A stretcher was brought in, Dick was placed upon it, and under a guard the midshipmen were marched to the prison, the soldiers with difficulty keeping back the crowd who pressed forward to see the English prisoners who had murdered the governor.
Doctor Bertmann walked with Jack to the prison door.

Upon the way he assured Jack that he entirely believed his version of the story, as he knew the governor to be a thoroughly bad man.
"Singularly enough," he said, "I had intended to see you to-day.