By your appearance and general demeanor you have seen better days, and it is a source of regret that I should see any one bearing evidence of once living in a different sphere from the one you now occupy, brought before me on a charge of robbery.

Let me now know what you have to say on this charge." "I can say nothing," she replied.
"Well, then, do you plead guilty, or not guilty ?" asked the Judge.
"Not Guilty!" thundered Harry, in an excited manner.

He had been unavoidably delayed from accompanying Mrs.Wentworth to the Court House, and had just arrived.

"Not guilty! I repeat, and, as counsel for the accused, I beg leave to make a few remarks." "Certainly, Lieutenant Shackleford," answered the Judge, who knew Harry well.
The remarks of Harry, and his excited manner, awoke the waning interest in the case, and the crowd clustered closer round the railings.
"Your honor, and gentlemen of the Jury," began Harry, as soon as he had become calm enough to speak: "It is now nearly two years since I appeared in a civil capacity before a court of justice, and I had thought that while this war lasted my services would have been solely on the battle-fields of my country, and not in the halls where law is dispensed.

But the case which I have appeared to defend, is so unlike those you ordinarily have before your honorable body, that I have, for a while, thrown off the armor of the soldier, and once more appear as the lawyer.