Have Pyrot arrested at once." II.

PYROT All Penguinia heard with horror of Pyrot's crime; at the same time there was a sort of satisfaction that this embezzlement combined with treachery and even bordering on sacrilege, had been committed by a Jew.
In order to understand this feeling it is necessary to be acquainted with the state of public opinion regarding the Jews both great and small.

As we have had occasion to say in this history, the universally detested and all powerful financial caste was composed of Christians and of Jews.

The Jews who formed part of it and on whom the people poured all their hatred were the upper-class Jews.

They possessed immense riches and, it was said, held more than a fifth part of the total property of Penguinia.