Scrobby had got down a barrister from London, and therefore the case was allowed to drag itself out through the whole day.  Lord Rufford, as a magistrate, went on to the bench himself, though he explained that he only took his seat there as a spectator.  Sir George and Mr. Gotobed were also allowed to sit in the high place,—­though the Senator complained even of this.  Goarly and Scrobby were not allowed to be there, and Lord Rufford, in his opinion, should also have been debarred from such a privilege.  A long time was occupied before even a jury could be sworn, the barrister earning his money by browbeating the provincial bench and putting various obstacles in the way of the trial.  As he was used to practice at the assizes of course he was able to domineer.  This juror would not do, nor that.  The chairman was all wrong in his law.  The officers of the Court knew nothing about it.  At first there was quite a triumph for the Scrobbyites, and even Nickem himself was frightened.  But at last the real case was allowed to begin, and Goarly was soon in the witness-box.  Goarly did not seem to enjoy the day, and was with difficulty got to tell his own story even on his own side.  But the story when it was told was simple enough.  He had met Mr. Scrobby accidentally in Rufford and they two had together discussed the affairs of the young Lord.  They came to an agreement that the young Lord was a tyrant and ought to be put down, and Scrobby showed how it was to be done.  Scrobby instigated the action about the pheasants, and undertook to pay the expenses if Goarly would act in the other little matter.  But, when he found that the Senator’s money was forthcoming, he had been anything but as good as his word.  Goarly swore that in hard cash he had never seen more than four shillings of Scrobby’s money.  As to the poison, Goarly declared that he knew nothing about it; but he certainly had received a parcel of herrings from Scrobby’s own hands, and in obedience to Scrobby’s directions, had laid them down in Dillsborough Wood the very morning on which the hounds had come there.  He owned that he supposed that there might be something in the herrings, something that would probably be deleterious to hounds as well as foxes,—­or to children should the herrings happen to fall into children’s hands; but he assured the Court that he had no knowledge of poison,—­none whatever.  Then he was made by the other side to give a complete and a somewhat prolonged account of his own life up to the present time, this information being of course required by the learned barrister on the other side; in listening to which the Senator did become thoroughly ashamed of the Briton whom he had assisted with his generosity.