and while chamber c of the second wing could at last allow itself a sigh of relief after having successfully settled yet another case much like a sovereign would sigh after having crushed an enemy uprising the presiding officer had no choice but to seek on his own the answers to the questions that troubled him , for there was nobody to tell him that as soon as tobias keller takes his first breath of freedom , he would begin to engage in an entirely new form of amusement by hiding in remote corners and listening to passers-by whisper to one another fantastic fabrications about chamber c of the second wing , nor could the presiding officer have known that the moment the defendant steps out of the room and notices the gaze of his great protector still peacefully resting upon him , he would set out down the central corridor of the second wing with a lump in his throat and a contrastingly light and graceful gait .