There you are, my lord, we've got it at last.

Bowled the chap out clean, first ball.
That's our case, only there's plenty more to be got out first.

We'll trouble your lordship to bring the chap in not guilty, when it's all done." And he nodded knowingly to the jury.
Railsford had sat and listened to all this in a state of the completest mystification.

Not having heard Barnworth's opening statement, he had no glimmer of a suspicion that the _cause celebre_ occupying the attention of this august assembly was anything but a pleasant fiction from beginning to end, and he had been wondering to himself whether such performances, conducted in the irregular style which he had witnessed, could be of any good.

However, coming as a guest (for the master of the house was always a visitor on such occasions), he deemed it best not to interfere just then.