|      "So at least you say he may have been one of them?"      "Yes.  Except that I remember them both to have been--like myself--timorous of highwaymen, and the prisoner has not a timorous air."      "Did you ever see a counterfeit of timidity, Mr. Lorry?"      "I certainly have seen that."      "Mr. Lorry, look once more upon the prisoner.  Have you seen him, to your certain knowledge, before?"      "I have." |      "When?"      "I was returning from France a few days afterwards, and, at Calais, the prisoner came on board the packet-ship in which I returned, and made the voyage with me."      "At what hour did he come on board?"      "At a little after midnight."      "In the dead of the night.  Was he the only passenger who came on board at that untimely hour?"      "He happened to be the only one." |