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The Bishop went with her to one of the counsel rooms in the courthouse and sent for Dardis. "This girl," he told the lawyer, "has a story to tell. I think you would do wisely to put her on the stand and let her tell it in her own way. She will make no mistakes. They will not be able to break her down." Then the Bishop went back to take up again his business with God.
"If one would forsake the world let him go to Imber," says a modern writer, and an old couplet runs "Imber on the Down, four miles from any town." A lane now turns left to Cheverell, where is a fine old mansion with an interesting courthouse and cells for prisoners, and an Early English church with a Perpendicular tower.
Here was the little brick courthouse and the jail, standing in the middle of a square which still contained the stumps of many of the trees that originally had flourished there. At the southwest corner of the square was the tavern, a long story and a half log house, and it was a welcome sight to Gwynne and his servant, both of whom were ravenously hungry by this time.
The rising sun poured its light into the room, and lit it up with splendor. I must transport you now, in imagination, over a few years of time and a few miles of country, and take you into a splendid drawing-room, in the handsome courthouse of the Delany's, which, you remember, I described in the first part of this story, situated near the town of Richmond.
The frightened men directly before the party struggled to get out of line of the weapon, yielding suddenly a clear passage. "Quick! Around the courthouse and back to the jail," Madden exclaimed to those with him.
"The office," says that same law student, "was on the second floor of a brick building on the public square opposite the courthouse. You went up a flight of stairs and then passed along a hallway to the rear office which was a medium sized room.
He kept in the background until the cavalcade had started, headed by the minister the circuit rider had driven off earlier in his cart to an outlying chapel and his wife. It was inviting on the deserted veranda, and Gordon lingered while the village emptied into the churches, the open. Finally he sauntered over the street, past the Courthouse, by Pompey Hollidew's residence.
It was quite by accident that when his patience was strained almost to the breaking point, he struck his hand against a board that formed part of the partition between his building and the courthouse next door, and tore a huge chunk of skin from the knuckles.
At the private entrance to the courthouse arrived fashionably-dressed ladies accompanied by well-groomed men. They had received cards of admission and had seats reserved for them in the body of the court.
It was given to Gregg to look out for Fitzhugh Lee, who was expected to come into the action from the direction of Louisa Courthouse. Hampton planned to advance from Trevilian Station with his own division and attack Sheridan at Clayton's store. Lee was to take the road from Louisa Courthouse to the same point and form on Hampton's right. A glance at the map will show that the two roads intersect.
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