You are a very good lawyer, but you are a poor historian, you know nothing of sociology, and your biology is contemporaneous with Pliny." Here Colonel Van Gilbert writhed in his chair.

There was perfect quiet in the room.

Everybody sat fascinated--paralyzed, I may say.

Such fearful treatment of the great Colonel Van Gilbert was unheard of, undreamed of, impossible to believe--the great Colonel Van Gilbert before whom judges trembled when he arose in court.

But Ernest never gave quarter to an enemy.
"This is, of course, no reflection on you," Ernest said.