[The Master of the Shell by Talbot Baines Reed]@TWC D-Link bookThe Master of the Shell CHAPTER ELEVEN 6/22
Who has drawn prisoner ?" Amid much laughter Stafford blushingly owned the soft impeachment, and was called upon to enter the dock, which he did, looking rather uncomfortable, and as if he half repented his consent to take a part in the proceedings. "Now," proceeded Ainger, consulting a paper, "the twelve jurymen are to go into the box there." The twelve boys with "Jury" on their papers obeyed.
They were a motley crew, some being Fifth-form boys, some Shell-fish, and some Babies.
And by the odd irony of fate, the one who had drawn the "foreman's" ticket was Jukes, the Baby. "Now the witnesses go to the back seats there.
You'll find on each the name you will be called by, and a short note of what your evidence is to be.
You will have to listen very carefully to Barnworth's story, so as to know exactly what it's all about." There was a laugh at this.
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