The buffer retired, and in came a duffer who said the occasion was not convenient.
"Ay, but it is," said Bradbury, "and if my lord is not here in five minutes, I'll go up-stairs and tell my tale before them all, and see if they are all hair-dressers' dummies, without heart or conscience or sense."
In five minutes in came a gentleman, with an order on his breast, and said, "You are a Bow Street officer?"
"Yes, my lord."
"Name?"
"Bradbury."
"You say the man condemned to die to-morrow is innocent?"
"Yes, my lord."
"How do you know?"
"Just taken the real culprit."