Tell them, the big dock downstairs.

And if we're lucky and get the job over in time, I don't mind standing treat all round in the refreshment-room afterwards.

That will fetch them, I fancy; eh, what ?" Sub-Chapter II.
THE TRIAL.
The room suddenly grew dim and silent again, and I began to think that after all I had been only dreaming.

But when I lifted my head and looked round, the place of the kings was empty.

There was William the Conqueror's footstool where he had upset it; and there lay the pen and ink on the floor under King John's chair.