It was Willy Ray's, and on meeting his brother's eyes for an instant Ralph turned his own quickly away.
Beneath the bar, with downcast eyes, sat Simeon Stagg.
The clerk of the court was reading a commission authorizing the court to hear and determine treasons, and while this formality was proceeding Ralph was taking note of his judges.

One of them was a stout, rubicund person advanced in years.

Ralph at once recognized him as a lawyer who had submitted to the Parliament six years before.

The other judge was a man of austere countenance, and quite unknown to Ralph.

It was the former of the two judges who had the principal management of the case.