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he looked guilty before they began to try
him. However, they began soon; for pres-
ently a man, who sat pretty near the judge,
rose and read the indictment.”

“The indictment ! ” said Lucy; “ what is
that ? ”’

' “That is the accusation. It was quite a
long paper, accusing the man of breaking
into a house, and stealing six silver spoons.”

“Did he?—break into a house!” said
Rollo, in a tone of surprise.

‘That was what he was accused of doing,
in the indictment.”

‘How did you know they called it an
indictment ?” asked Lucy.

‘*O, I didn’t know then. I asked a man
in the evening, at the tavern, and he told me
all about it, and so a good many things which
I shall explain to you, as I go along, I did
hot understaad exactly, when I was in the
court, but learned about them afterwards.”

“Very well,” said Rollo, “go on.”

‘‘ After the indictment was read, a lawyer,
Who was sitting at one of the desks before
the judge, got up, and began to tell what the
criminal had done. He said he stole the
spoons, and carried them into another town

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