Such, also, seemed to be the opinion of counsel before whom, at a matutinal hour, he laid the facts of the case. When, in view of those facts, counsel on both sides conferred before the case was opened, the general feeling plainly pointed in the same direction. And, on its being stated in open court that, in face of the discovery of the vanished will, all opposition to Miss Delia Angel would, with permission, be at once withdrawn, it was incidentally mentioned how the discovery had been brought about. All eyes, turning to the jury-box, fastened on Philip Roland, whose agitated countenance pointed the allusion. The part which he had played having been made sufficiently plain, the judge himself joined in the general stare. His lordship went so far as to remark that while he was pleased to accede to the application which had been made to him to consider the case at an end, being of opinion that the matter had been brought to a very proper termination, still he could not conceal from himself that, so far as he could gather from what had been said, the conduct of one of the jurymen, even allowing some latitude--here his lordship's eyes seemed to twinkle--was marked by a considerable amount of irregularity. Mitwaterstraand THE STORY OF A SHOCK Chapter I THE DISEASE On the night before their daughter's Wedding Mr. and Mrs. Staunton gave a ball. As the festivities were drawing to a close, Mr. Staunton button-holed the bridegroom of the morrow. "By the way, Burgoyne, there's one thing with reference to Minnie I wish to speak to you about. I--I'm not sure I oughtn't to have spoken to you before." In the ball-room they were playing a waltz. Mr. Burgoyne's heart was with the dancers. "About Minnie? What about Minnie? Don't you think that the little I don't know about her already, I shall find out soon enough upon my own account?" "This is something--this is something that you ought to be told." Mr. Staunton hesitated, and the opportunity was lost. The next morning Mr. Burgoyne was married.