t te great trial of v and � which in scandalous revelations in high life � is proceeding a group of would be has collected waiting with t ie patience of respectable for a chance of admission to the paradise within the paradise at present is full to overflowing and the doors are guarded by a couple of particularly stern and stolid attendants each is trying to wear out the endurance of the rest and to the by behaviour a meek man to after standing in hopeful silence for three quarters of an hour i suppose there ll be a chance of getting in presently eh the placidly none whatever sir the m m but they ll be rising for luncheon in an hour or so some will be coming out then surely not many them as are in stays in mostly the m m with a sudden recollection that he is acquainted with one of the counsel engaged in the case couldn t you take in my card to mr tm sure he ll do anything he could for me the rest regard him with extreme as one guilty of behaviour on the threshold of � it won t be no use � there ain t room in there as it is for a cue � a one � but i ll get it taken in for you if you like he opens the door a very little and passes card to an attendant within junior members of the junior bar in very clean white with thought you had orders to let counsel in before the general public there ought to be some rule about that if there isn t so we do sir but if this gentleman s a friend of mr s and he me to admit him why you see the junior junior the convenience of mere members of the bar must give way naturally the inside attendant returns with card which the the door to receive and then it with a sharp like a wild beast to the m m after card by the dim light i told you it wouldn t be no use sir please wait it says general movement of virtuous satisfaction at this well rebuke the m m wishing he had not put his trust in i � i have waited � but it don t matter addressing first white wig from a timid social impulse the � er � made some remarkable in the box yesterday � his cross examination seemed pretty severe first white wig after a stare at his audacity cross examination not is to the ot w w see that extraordinary decision of old s in v of course they ll appeal i the couple converse in highly terms for some minutes the m m at the next pause it struck me that colonel rather contradicted himself on one or two points second w w very likely to first w w what do you do when you re before one of these confounded common law judges on the threshold of and see he s looking up a point of in a text book during your argument do you wait for him first w w a all the decision of a counsel who was called the before last wait for him no � go on talking about anything you like till he s ready to listen to you again that s what always lo an important stranger bustling up to here i say let me in will you you a witness in this case sir the s after a tell tale pause er � yes � in a sort of way y know then your entrance is down below sir in the central all � you ll see it written up there the i s � well i m not exactly a witness but i m interested in the case y know so are all these gentlemen sir � but they can t get in the i s no � but look here i know the � t least i � don t mean to call em that y know � hope they re all innocent i m sure i like em all danced with em and all that lots of times ah well you see they ain t to day sir tjie i s away there is a stir within the portion of the crowd in court that is visible through the glass doors and presently produces a stout and struggling q c make way there stand aside gentlemen please counsel coming out q c comes puffing followed by his clerk and a first w w as the chasm in t ie crowd again now you can let us in not yet sir to other i see that party last � know � him as was here making all that day afore yesterday i went and ad a drink with im second interested ah and ow was he first oh same as usual � told me he d come up from for a week s � and he seems to be it too ome saturday so he but the on the threshold second grimly he ll be lucky if he gets there saturday fortnight murmurs from the fortunate who can just see the witness box the glass who s that in the box that s colonel � finishing his cross examination � doesn t seem to be enjoying himself see how he s at his moustache � got a nasty one just then i expect � i d as soon believe im as i would er � now � she ain t been in the box yet � no but she s a lar bad lot from what was said in the opening speech they won t change my opinion of r whichever way the case goes well i t followed it closely myself � oh no more have i � but still i ve e up 