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one leading to the story above. They did
so, and here they found a door which Jonas
opened, and he and Rollo walked in, and
found themselves in a little gallery of the
court-room, from which they could look
down upon the whole floor. They could
see the bench, and the desks, and the seats
for the lawyers in -front. These lawyers’
seats occupied almost the whole of the
middle of the court-room, and all of them
had little desks before them. Behind these
lawyers’ seats was a curious-looking sort of a
pew, with iron pickets all around the top of
it. Jonas said that was called the bar, where
they put the criminals when they were tried,
and that a man with a long pole stood at the
door of the pew, whenever prisoners were

there, to keep them from getting away.
Rollo found four more pews, as he called
them, in looking around the room. Two
were on each side, opposite to the lawyers’
desks, back against the wall. There was
an aisle between them and the lawyers’ seats.
They fronted in, towards the middle of the
room, so that those who sat in them would
face the lawyers, and almost face the judge.
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