"Your face is bathed in perspiration; your eyes glare wildly."
"Change places with me, and see how you would feel."
"Such signs, then, are the signs of innocence?"
"What else should they be?"
During this long examination, Gautran's limbs trembled violently, and there passed over his face the most frightful expressions.
CHAPTER XIV.
[THE EVIDENCE OF WITNESSES]
Among the first witnesses called was Heinrich Heitz, a wood-cutter, who had been for some time in partnership with Gautran, and of whom Gautran had denied any knowledge whatever.
On his forehead was the red scar of a wound inflicted some time before.
"Look at the prisoner. Do you know him?"