The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1913-01-12


wretch was being examined.
don't know whether 1t was the fog
creeping about or the 6im light or just
pressed or asleep.
TWAS A REsTFUL SCENE.
The counsel CHATS merely a barris-
teri examining the witness droned and
chanted, the witness murmured and
whispered. the people in court nodded
and l am sure the desr old Judge had
many a little catnap. Once he reused
himself, though.
How can you. a clerk in firm OF
solicitors, make such a statement! ne
demanded of the witness.
Stockholders, Mud" said the council
in a stage whisper.
A slight litter from a corner.
Hush" from the usher.
Eth, what?" growlsd the judge. quite
wide awake.
Stockholders. not solicitors" pursued
the barrister. being one OF those VINO
seen their duty and done 1t"
oh, stockbrokers. u-m-h: understood
It was solicitors" muttered the judge.
ana after that he just washed his hands
Of the whole affair and settled down to
snooZe.
As for me ! was bIIssfully happy. for
there were old friends all around me.
Lady Dedlock. with cold set face and tired
eyes. was on a nearby bench. while
scrooge and Mr.. Pickwick and Sam
Weller were on the back row. and dis
reputable Dick swiveller grinned in
gratiatingly at me from seat near the
door, while Mr.. JarndyCe and number
OF others could be located. felt sure.
Absent mlndedly l produced my pencil
and book 1t was all too good to be
lost. but 1 felt the man OF law take my
arm and / turned and looked at him.
His face was horror stricken. and he fixed
the evidences OF my trade with basilisk
eye.
Hurriedly I concealed the pencil and
sketchbook.
No doubt II was a narrow escape; per
haps It would have meant penal servi-
tude, but all the same I'm resentful 1
feel 1 lost an opportunity for rare set
of Dickens illustrations
I've had enough" I whispered. and
out we crept while the usher droned his
Hush"
WANTED A PEEK AT HIM.
where's the Lord High CHANCELLOR" 1
demanded as one defrauded.
why, isn't he there in that court at
tending to his duty?'
The barrister laughed loudly and rudely.
Good heavens! You can't see the Lord
Chancellor whenever you make up your
4 20 he aNrlaimad "HA
only appears at the opening of the Law
Courts and on very special occasions
We walked along the corridor.
ANY divorce cases on?" said i. as we
nausea before the Admiralty. Divorce and
Probate Division.
NO. Just a disputed will. at the mo-
ment. Shall we go IMP
We did. and. oh. how dull It was! But
had a glimpse of Mr.. Justice Darling.
the elderly Apollo Belvedere and merry
Jester OF the Law Courts.
He didn't look his best, and he didn't
scintirlate much at quarter to eleven. but
I didn't expect it of him.
CAUSE OF HIT WHICH SHE MADE.
I fattered myself made rather an i'm
preston in that court. Several persons
GRAINED their necks to look at me. and 1
strafghtened my hat and tried to appear
unconscious.
"whv did they stare at me7'' I asked
ingenuously as we came out after very
brief stay.
Thought you were mixed up in the
divorce case which comes on later" ex-
claimed my guide callously.
There YOU are. girls: that's British chiv-
airy for you! Don't you ever try to get
an Englishman to rise to an occasion. be-
cause he simply won't. That's the reason
why the suffragette was born here instead
Of elsewhere.
Here's the Court OF Appeal" contin-
ued the Man of Law. quite unconscious
Of all he might have said and didn't.
The Court OF Appeal was most impress
sive.
THEIR IMPRESSIVE GARB.
There were three very dressy Judges,
with little white fur tippets and red
scarves over their black robes and wild
owls cuffs on their wrists.
On the right was the box where all the
notorious criminals of the day have stood
to appeal against judgment pronounced
against them by lesser courts. Three |
Judges have to listen to them. and though |
nothing much ever seems to come Of 1t. F!
,tiu IT'S a good try.
Seldom. who poisoned an elderly spinster !
odger for her money, stood there only a !
lew months ago. Crippen, too. begged |
Tor mercy there, and Stinie Morrison.
Years ago Oscar Wilde demanded JUS |
Ice from that platform. and a host of |
others who have faded out of memory |
now. though. in their little day they were !
snathema in the sight Of men.
Lord Alverstone. the Lord Chief JUS
ice Of England my guide informed me /
n an impressive II husky whisper, point
ng to the Judge sitting in the middle. a /
lear grandfatherly old man with finely