The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-10-21
CHAPTER XIX.

MEEsON VS.. ADDISON AND ANOTHER.
The most wearisome times 90 by at last
If only one lives TO see the end of them,
and so it came TO pass that at length on
one fine morning about a quarter to 10 Of
the law courts clock, that projects its
CHASTITY hideousness upon unoffending
Fleet street, Augusta, accompanied by
Eustace Lady Holmhurst and Mrs
Thomas, the wife Of Capt. Thomas, who
had come up from visiting her relatives in
tho eastern counties in order to give eyi-
1cnce, found herself standing in the big
entrance to the new law courts, feeling as
though She woulG ga: five years of her
life to be anywhere else.
"This way my dear said Eustace.
''Mr. John Short said that he would meet
us by the staiue in the hell" Accordingly
they passed into the archway by the OAK
stand where the cause lists are displayed.
Augusta glanced at them as she went, and
the first thing that her eyes fell on was;
probate and Divorce division, court /,
Mt 1890, Meeson VS. Addison and an
other, and the sight gade her feel sick,
In another moment they had passed 4
policeman of gigantic size, 'monsiynm
horrendum, informc ingens," who watches
and wards the folding doors through
which somuch human learning. wretched-
ness and worry pass day by day, and wee
standing by the long but narrow and i'll
proportional hall which appears to have
been the best thing that the architectural
talent Of the Nineteenth century was CO
psble of producing.
To the right Of the door on entering is
q statue of the architect of pile of which
England has certainly no cause to feel
proud, and here, O black bag full of papers
In his hand, stood Mr. John Short, wear
ing that air OF excitement upon his cOun-
tenance which is so commonly TO be seen
In the law courts.
"Eere YOU are. " he said; Il was begin
ming to be afraid that you would be late.
We arc first on the list. you know; the
Judge fixed it specially to suit the conven-
ience of the attorney general. Hes on
the other side. YOU know, he added, with
a sigh. I'm sure don't know how poor
James will get on. There arc more than
twenty counsel against him, for all the
legatees under the former will are repre-
scented AT any rate lac is well up in his
facts, and there does not seem TO me to be
very much law in the case
Meanwhile they had been proceeding up
the long hall till they came to poly lit
tie staircase which had just been dug out
In the wall, the necessity for a staircase
at that end of the hall, whereby the court
floor could be reached, having, to all APP
pearance, originally escaped the attention
of the architect. On getting to the top
of the staircase they turned TO the left
and then to the left again. If they had
had any doubt Us to which road they
should take II would have been speedily
decided by the long string of wigs which
were streaming away in the direction OF
divorce court No. |. Thicker and thicker
grew the wigs, II was obvious that the
cause ceiebre Of Meeson VS.. Addison and
Another would not want for hearers. In
deed, Augusta and her friends soon real
lied the intensity Of the public interest
Ia way that was as impressive as it was
oisagreeable. for just past the admiralty
Ssar' ihe passage was entirely blocked by