There are two other judgments against the Defendant, who is earning about 12s.

a week, and the verdict is 1s.

a month, first payment that day three weeks.
Then the solicitor for the Plaintiff in the 'horse case' rises and informs the Judge that the parties cannot settle it, and the case must proceed.
The Plaintiff and Defendant take their places, and some thirty witnesses file through the gangway to the witness-room to be out of Court.

The bailiffs light the gas as the gloom deepens, and the solicitor begins his opening speech.

The Judge has leant back in his chair, closed his eyes, and composed himself to listen.