Chapter 29 A TRUE BILL AGAINST JEM.

"There are who, living by the legal pen,

Are held in honour-honourable men."

Crabbe.

At five minutes before two, Job Legh stood upon the door-step of the house where Mr. Bridgenorth lodged at Assize time. He had left Mrs. Wilson at the dwelling of a friend of his, who had offered him a room for the old woman and Mary: a room which had freq