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"We will now," he said, turning to his fellow-judges, "retire for a few moments to decide on the winner of the Scholarship." Sir John and the other judges immediately left the hall, and the girls, still standing in that strained and painful position, waited with lowered eyes for the result. Amongst the three, however, all doubt was over.
"Softly, softly," said Dr Marjoribanks; "common-sense has nothing to do with facts; we're inquiring into facts at this moment; and, besides, it's a very foolish and unjustifiable confidence to trust to any man's common-sense," said the old Doctor, with a humorous glance from under his shaggy eyebrows at his fellow-judges; upon which there ensued a laugh, not very agreeable in its tone, which brought the Rector to a white heat of impatience and secret rage.
Now, as Mother of the priestesses, I demand that justice be done upon these wicked ones, according to the ancient custom, lest the curse of Baaltis should fall upon this city." When she had finished her evidence, with a cold stare of triumphant hate at her rival, Mesa stepped to one side. "You have heard," said the Shadid addressing his fellow-judges. "Do you need further testimony?
And he quietly stood alone, against the mob and his fellow-judges, for the hapless victors of Arginusae in 406; and he quietly stood alone against the Thirty Tyrants during their reign of terror in 404, disobeying them at peril of his life.
"Call it abduction, if you will," Sir John admitted. "Not if I will, Sir John. We'll call it what it is, if you please." "You are trifling, sir. But we shall mend that presently," and Sir John banged the table with his fist, his face flushing slightly in anger. He turned to his fellow-judges. "We will then, sirs, with your concurrence, say no more of the piracy."
"Or what?" said Goll with a great laugh. Fionn shook his head sternly and said no more. "What is your judgement?" Cormac demanded of his fellow-judges. Flahri pronounced first. "I give damages to clann-Morna." "Why?" said Cormac. "Because they were attacked first." Cormac looked at him stubbornly. "I do not agree with your judgement," he said. "What is there faulty in it?" Flahri asked.
The majority, seven in number, laid down the broad principle that no statute prohibiting arbitrary taxation could be pleaded against the king's will. "I never read or heard," said Judge Berkeley, "that lex was rex, but it is common and most true that rex is lex." Finch, the Chief-Justice, summed up the opinions of his fellow-judges.
Agias tried to tell his story, but to no effect; Falto and his fellow-judges dryly remarked to one another that the prisoner was trying to clear himself, by plausibly admitting the existence of the conspiracy, but of course suppressing the real details. Agias reasoned. He was met with obstinate incredulity. He entreated, prayed, implored.
It is one of the finest instances of true nobility of soul and of absolute self-renunciation that the world affords. And the deep strain, the sharp wrench of the step is made more apparent still by the fact of the disapproval of his fellow-judges of his public confession and recantation.
Before giving their verdict, however, they proceeded to examine it minutely, and at last, one of the members an ecclesiastic of high rank, if I remember rightly waved his hand to secure the attention of his fellow-judges, and spoke thus: 'The picture presented by this artist, he said, 'has undoubtedly very high merit as a mere work of art; but it is unsuited to the place and purpose for which it was designed.
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