too many of them had been one after another dragged into the vile business , implicated and smeared any way they could be - ferris , because laurence must have confided in his first lieutenant - `` and it must present a curious appearance to the court , '' the prosecutor had said , sneering , while ferris sat drawn and pale and wretched and did not look at laurence , `` that he did not raise the alarm for an hour after the accused and his beast were known to be missing , and did not at once open the letter which was left behind - `` chenery , too , had been named , only because he had also been in london covert at the time , and berkley and little and sutton all brought in to give evidence ; and if harcourt and jane had not been mentioned , laurence was sure it was only because the admiralty did not know how to do it , without embarrassing themselves more than their targets .