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Dr Chedsey had quite recovered from his emotions of the morning. Rose's words are given as she spoke them: but it must be remembered that they would not sound nearly so strong to those who heard them as they do to us. Lammas is the second of August. Mrs Cosin, the landlady of the White Hart, prepared a very good supper for the Commissioners. These gentlemen did not fare badly.
"Seems familiar " He shook his head. "You don't recall a Mr. Ayling twenty-five or thirty years ago?" "Ayling, sir? I recall there was a member of that name.... You're not Mr. Ayling, sir?" "We're not very flattering, either of us, it seems. But then, privilege of the aged, I suppose." "Beg pardon, sir. I'm sorry I ought to remember you." "We're wearing masks, Chedsey, you and I."
It was not until Ayling had begun to ask Chedsey for news of old friends, and chanced almost at once to mention Lonsdale, that both he and the old waiter exclaimed in the same breath, "Major Lonsdale!" as if the Major's name had been a key to open the doors of both their memories. "And you're young Mr. Dick Ayling! I remember you perfectly now!" Chedsey beamed.
"What happened?" he asked, and Chedsey, glad to talk of the major, told how he had left the club to be Major Lonsdale's man just after he came back from the Boer War. How things hadn't seemed to go well with the major after that; he lost money just how, Chedsey didn't say, but gave one to understand that it was a misfortune beyond the major's control.
Into the hall, robed in judicial ermine, filed the Royal Commissioners, Sir John Kingston, and Dr Chedsey, followed by Boswell, the scribe, Robert Maynard and Robert Brown the Sheriffs, several priests, and many magistrates and gentlemen of the surrounding country.
For the fourth time Dr Chedsey assumed the black cap. Rose kept silence while she was condemned to death. But no sooner had his voice ceased than, to the amazement of all who heard her, she broke forth into song. It was verily: "The shout of them that triumph, The song of them that feast." She was led out of the court and down the dungeon steps, singing, till her voice filled the whole court.
Sir John's voice called back. "Take 'em down, Tom," said Wastborowe to his man, not at all sorry to go away from Cissy. He ran back to court. "We are of opinion, Wastborowe," said Dr Chedsey rather pompously, "that these children are too young and ignorant to be put to the bar.
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