After a careful and luminous summing up, the jury, with very slight deliberation, returned a verdict of "Guilty." As the word passed the lips of the foreman of the jury, a piercing shriek rang through the court.

asked Lesbia, not displeased at this contemptuous summing up of poor Belle Trinder's story.

There was, however, this drawback; or so the clerk declared after a dubious summing up of the disreputable Dupont ensemble: whereas one might travel any class as far as Nimes, the rapide for Lyons carried only passengers of the first class.

One passage more, the conclusion and practical summing up of the whole: O ignorant poor man!