At the adjournment Rouletabille had not yet arrived.

Every time a door opened, all eyes there turned towards it and back to the manager of the "Epoque," who sat impassive in his place.
When he once was feeling in his pocket a loud murmur of expectation followed.

The letter! It is not, however, my intention to report in detail the course of the trial.

My readers are sufficiently acquainted with the mysteries surrounding the Glandier case to enable me to go on to the really dramatic denouement of this ever-memorable day.
When the trial was resumed, Maitre Henri Robert questioned Daddy Mathieu as to his complicity in the death of the keeper.

His wife was also brought in and was confronted by her husband.