This, it so happened, was not to be for several hours, and during this interval Gottlieb mysteriously vanished and as mysteriously reappeared.

It was half after three before the judge announced that he would take up Toby's case.

Now, the judge looked even more of a rascal than did Gottlieb, which was paying his Honor a high compliment, and I suspect that it was for this reason that the complainant had in the meantime sent round for his own lawyer to represent him.

We were now pushed forward and huddled into a small space in front of the rail, while the lawyers took their places upon the platform before us.
"Your Honor," began the lawyer for the hotel man, "this fellow here has swindled my client out of six hundred dollars by inducing him to cash a worthless check." "What have you to say, Mr.Gottlieb ?" asked the judge.
"Confession and avoidance, your Honor," replied the attorney, with what appeared to me to be the slightest possible drawing down of his right eyelid.

"Confession and avoidance.