One glimpse of the owner of a title that stands written in the Doomsday Book would have outshone the halo of Schillingschen's culture.
I rattled off what I had to say, telling the story from the moment I started to follow Hassan from the hotel down to the end, omitting nothing.
"Schillingschen is worse than a spy.

He's a black-hearted, schemer.
He's planning to upset British rule in this Protectorate and make it easy for the Germans to usurp!" "This is nonsense!" the collector interrupted.

"Professor Schillingschen is the honored friend of the British government.

He came to us here with the most influential backing--letter of introduction from very exalted personages, I assure you! Professor Schillingschen is one of the most, if not the most, learned ethnologists in the world to-day.

How dare you traduce him!" "But you heard him tell lies in court!" I gasped.