Had Passepartout been a little less preoccupied, he would have espied the detective ensconced in a corner of the court-room, watching the proceedings with an interest easily understood; for the warrant had failed to reach him at Calcutta, as it had done at Bombay and Suez.
Y no estando Picaporte tan preocupado, hubiera visto en un rincón del pretorio al "detective", que asistía al juicio con interés fácil de comprender, porque en Calcuta como en Bombay y como en Suez, no tenía aún el mandato de prision.