It proves the letter to have been written." * * * * * Morris had been given a seat in the dock, and on each side of him there stood a prison-warder.

But in the awed hush that followed, for the vultures and carrion crows who crowded the court were finding themselves quite beautifully thrilled, he wrote a few words on a slip of paper and handed it to a warder to give to his counsel.

And his counsel nodded to him.
The opening speech for the Crown had lasted something over two hours, and a couple of witnesses only were called before the interval for lunch.

But most of the human ghouls had brought sandwiches with them, and the court was packed with the same people when Morris was brought up again after the interval, and the judge, breathing sherry, took his seat.

The court had become terribly hot, but the public were too humane to mind that.