The doors of the court were being opened.

Another second, and in rushed and struggled a hideous sea of barristers.

Heavens, how they fought and kicked! A maddened herd of buffaloes could not have behaved more desperately.

On rushed the white wave of wigs, bearing the strong men who hold the door before them like wreckage on a breaker.

On they came and in forty seconds the court was crowded to its utmost capacity, and still there were hundreds of white wigged men behind.