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 waistcoat and a straw hat.
 Lieutenant Colonel Picquart was in plain clothes and was cold-shouldered by the army people. But apparently he did not mind He had played the winning card and could afford to be indifferent No members of the Dreyfus family were any where visible, but most of the leading par tisans of Dreyfus had come.
 The concert room where the trial is held has vaulted roof. The walls are adorned with tablets containing the names of fa- nous Bretons. Just behind the seat placed for Dreyfus is a tablet on which the last name is that of Roman.
 At O clock the coming of the court was announced in military fashion, the soldiers presenting arms. The judges entered from the wings and were in full dress uniform They proceeded in Indian file to their places behind a long table on slightly raised platform. Colonel Jouaust, the pre- siding officer, is a man of dignifed appear ance, not unintellectual, ,and has an upright martial air. The counsel for the defense have seats and desks on the stage platform to the left of the judges table. The seat of the accused is in front and also on the stage. Facing it, on the right side, are desks for the registrar and prosecuting officer. All were well in view.
 Colonel Jouaust, in a stentorian voice, de- clared that the trial be begun and ordered the accused to be brought in.
 Interest in Droyfus
 All eyes were turned upon Dreyfus. His fresh complexion astonished all. The fig ure remains clean built. He entered with measured steps. His mode of saluting the court was jerky and very composed, but his fingers betrayed nervousness. His voice is not good, but it was out of prac- tice for five years.
 The first incident was the declaration of the president-colonel that he had unlimited power to call witnesses He then ordered those of M. Quesnay de Beaurpaire to be cited. The indictment is that of 1894
 Dreyfus answered cautiously all ques- tions. The judge was fair, but evidently not friendly. He showed himself, however, sensible and sober-minded, and impressed every one favorably.
 The accused is unfortunate in not being able, apart from his sufferings as told by others, to command sympathy. His coun-
 
 feelings. It is reticent fact. but not bad one. One would like it to be more frank. The voice is not pleasing and the diction is less so. Dreyfus seems without dramatic feeling and lacks in all things. However, he passed today through a cruel ordeal. It was trying after the ex- perience of the last five years, to find him self in the full blaze of publicity and stared at and crutinized by 700 observers.
 In the course of a conversation with Matire Demange, remarked that Dreyfus seemed to me unresponsive and incapable of initiating a flow of feeling.
 Think" he answered, ''of what I or you would be after five years out of humanitys reach, constantly under the eye of surly jaier, and not only under his eye but within the aim of his revolver. He was bound to silence, unless when given leave to speak, He was beset with enemies, was treated as the vilest of mortals, was put in irons, though docile and submissive.
 Almost Learned to Cover
 He almost learned to cover. He found he was losing the lingual faculty and had to speak to himself to keep it up l knew him before he was sent to Devils Island. He was then hearty, responsive and really good company with those he liked. His voice was singularly tuneful and express i've, but he lost it.
 "Dreyfus Is now the ghost of his former self. All spirit was broken by tine tyranni- cal treatment, thesvapor bath. the obnox- ious insects and the isolation from all hu- man beings. He is still proud, but he is cowed. That hollow voice is such evidence to me of long and indescribable suffering. It is as a far-on voice. like what one hears in a telephone His lachrymal glands are worn out. In short, he is a wreck.
 ''I wish his pride would suffer him to collapse If it did he would draw tears from the most stony hearted. He seemed to me miraculous as he bore himself through all those long years, the center to which all eyes converged. Dreyfus, I re- peat, was a charming man five years ago. He was thought fascinating by the other sex. Only a lovable man could have been loved like he has been hv his wife