"Here!" He felt a smooth flat and circular thing thrust suddenly into his hands with a whisper that he could not catch, and simultaneously he heard a rush of footsteps outside.

He had just time to stuff the thing inside his coat and roll over as if asleep when the door flew open, and three or four men, with a policeman at their head, burst into the barn.
(II) It would be charitable, I think, to suppress the name of the small market-town where the trial was held.

The excellent magistrates who conducted it certainly did their best under very difficult circumstances; for what are you to do if a man accused of theft cordially pleads guilty?
and yet, certainly it would distress them to hear of a very obvious miscarriage of justice executed at their hands.
On Friday morning at ten o'clock the vehicles began to arrive--the motor of the country gentleman, the dog-cart of the neighboring rector, and the brougham of the retired general.

It was the General who presided.
The court-room was not more dismal than court-rooms usually are.

When I visited it on my little pilgrimage, undertaken a few months ago, it had been repainted and the woodwork grained to represent oak.