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When a gentleman has as many aliases as Colonel Clay, you can hardly expect him to be over particular about having only one wife between them, can you?" "Ah, I see," Charles muttered, in a shocked voice. "Bigamy!" The inspector looked stony. "Well, not exactly that," he replied, "occasional marriage." Mr. Justice Rhadamanth tried the case.
"The prisoner is entirely within his rights," Rhadamanth answered, looking severely at Charles. "And I was wrong in suggesting that he needed the advice or assistance of counsel." Charles wriggled visibly. Colonel Clay perked up.
"When you offered to amalgamate with Lord Craig-Ellachie," he asked, "had you or had you not heard that a gold-bearing reef ran straight from your concession into Lord Craig-Ellachie's, and that his portion of the reef was by far the larger and more important?" Charles wriggled again, and our counsel interposed; but Rhadamanth was adamant. Charles had to allow it.
The women at the back burst into tears, unanimously. Mr. Justice Rhadamanth addressed the prisoner. "Have you anything to urge," he asked in a very stern tone, "in mitigation of whatever sentence the Court may see fit to pass upon you?" "Nothing," the prisoner answered, just faltering slightly. "I have brought it upon myself but I have protected the lives of those nearest and dearest to me.
The party found, however, they could not make Punch dance, and that the whole troop were equally intractable; they had also, perhaps, some apprehensions of the Rhadamanth of the district; and, willing to be quit of their booty, they left the puppets seated in a grove by the side of the Ettrick, where they were sure to be touched by the first beams of the rising sun.
"I'm sorry it's him, Sey," my brother-in-law whispered in my ear. Easy's a man of the world, and a man of society; he would feel for a person in my position. He wouldn't allow these beasts of lawyers to badger and pester me. He would back his order. But Rhadamanth is one of your modern sort of judges, who make a merit of being what they call 'conscientious, and won't hush up anything.
He had endeavoured to save himself by ruining his company. Charles tried to brazen it out with remarks to the effect that business was business. "And fraud is fraud," Rhadamanth added, in his pungent way. "A man must protect himself," Charles burst out. "At the expense of those who have put their trust in his honour and integrity," the judge commented coldly.
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