He is not morally responsible, we know; but it is a question if he is not legally responsible, though the lawyers think he is not.
Anyhow, there is going to be a meeting of the creditors to-morrow." "And what do you think they will do ?" "Oh, they will, most probably, let him go on for the present; but, of course, if he is made accountable for the diamonds there will be nothing for it but to 'go through the hoop,' as the sporting financier expresses it." "The diamonds were of considerable value, then ?" "From twenty-five to thirty thousand pounds' worth vanished with that parcel." I whistled.

This was a much bigger affair than I had imagined, and I was wondering if Thorndyke had realised the magnitude of the robbery, when we arrived at the police court.
"I suppose our friends have gone inside," said Walter.

"They must have got here before us." This supposition was confirmed by a constable of whom we made inquiry, and who directed us to the entrance to the court.

Passing down a passage and elbowing our way through the throng of idlers, we made for the solicitor's box, where we had barely taken our seats when the case was called.
Unspeakably dreary and depressing were the brief proceedings that followed, and dreadfully suggestive of the helplessness of even an innocent man on whom the law has laid its hand and in whose behalf its inexorable machinery has been set in motion.
The presiding magistrate, emotionless and dry, dipped his pen while Reuben, who had surrendered to his bail, was placed in the dock and the charge read over to him.

The counsel representing the police gave an abstract of the case with the matter-of-fact air of a house-agent describing an eligible property.