Both were evidently following the case closely, and when on the next day I saw that they were in the same place, I took an even greater interest in them than before.

It was not however until the trial had finished and the pair of miserable men had been sent to penal servitude for a lengthy term of years, that I made the acquaintance of the men I have just described.

I remember the circumstance quite distinctly.

I had left the Court and was proceeding down the Old Bailey in the direction of Ludgate Hill, when I heard my name pronounced.
Turning round I discovered to my astonishment the two men I had seen in the Court, and who had seemed to take such an interest in the case.

The smaller was guiding his friend along the crowded pavement with a dexterity that was plainly the outcome of a long practice.