“You, with others who appear to have escaped, violently ill-treated the guard who were sent here to arrest this lady—Princess Gatrina?”
“It may pass at that; although the ill-treatment was not very violent.”
“You set your dog on one of them?”
“The man was going to arrest me, and I would not permit that. But he was not hurt.”
“You then forcibly took from five of the men their uniforms that your men might wear them as a disguise and personate troops of the line.”
“Yes, that is true.”
His eyebrows went up and he pursed his lips and shrugged his shoulders. Very ominous gestures.
“Who were the men with you?”
“That I cannot answer. The responsibility is mine and mine only. They were men whom I paid to assist me.”
“That is a very grave admission, Mr. Bergwyn.”