Some of them were bearded and some were bald.

However, they all remained rather indistinct, as their side of the court was steeped in shade.

After them came the judges, headed by M.de Larombiere, one of the Vice-Presidents of the Appeal Court, who in assuming the perilous honour of conducting the trial had sought to increase the majesty of his long, slender, white face, which looked the more austere as both his assessors, one dark and the other fair, had highly coloured countenances.

The public prosecutor's seat was already occupied by one of the most skilful of the advocates-general, M.Lehmann, a broad-shouldered Alsatian Israelite, with cunning eyes, whose presence showed that the case was deemed exceptionally important.

At last, amidst the heavy tread of gendarmes, Salvat was brought in, at once rousing such ardent curiosity that all the spectators rose to look at him.