At sight of him Luckstone gave a half-startled gasp.

A violent tremor traveled down Beard's frame.

The agitation of the lawyer and the secretary extended in milder form to the others in the room.
"Travis, look around this room and see if you can identify the man that hired you to impersonate Herbert Whitmore!" said Britz.
Travis's gaze wandered from face to face, finally fixing itself on Beard's drawn features.
"That is the man!" he said, pointing a trembling forefinger at the secretary.
"That is all!" Britz dismissed him.
This dramatic interruption of the hearing served to increase the strained expectancy with which those in the room had followed the proceedings.

A dozen times Manning and Greig had experienced a darting sense of alarm as Britz's case threatened to collapse.

Momentarily they expected to hear him acknowledge that he had erred in his accusations and to see him abandon his efforts to fix the crime on Mrs.Collins, Collins, Ward and Beard.
But with each new setback Britz became all the more determined.