“If you know that, then why do you ask me so many questions about it?”
“In the sincere hope that by the production of the document itself, you may be able to repudiate so serious an accusation. You admit then that you have acted without the shelter of a commission from his Majesty?”
“I admit nothing.”
The examiner looked up and down the row of silent figures as much as to say, “I have done my best; shall any further questions be put?” There being no response to this the examiner said, still without raising his voice:
“There is a witness in this case, and I ask him to stand forward.”
A hooded and cloaked figure approached the table.
“Are you a member of the Fehmgerichte?”
“I am.”
“In good and honourable standing?”
“In good and honourable standing.”