"Ah, but you are Travice Arkell," she said, her seriousness returning. "A rich man may go about without shoes if he likes; but a poor one must not be seen even in mended ones." "True: it's the way of the world, Lucy. Well, I should mend that jersey with a new one. Why, you'll be a whole day over it." "I dare say I shall be two. Travice, there's Mr. St. John looking round for you. He was beckoning. Did you not see him. "No, I only saw you," answered Travice, in a tone that was rather a significant one. "I see now; he wants me. Good-bye, Lucy." He took her hand in his. There was little necessity for it, seeing that he came in two or three times a day. And he kept it longer than he need have done. CHAPTER VII. CARR VERSUS CARR. It was two o'clock in the afternoon, and a crowd of busy idlers was gathered round the Guildhall at Westerbury, for the great cause was being brought on--Carr _versus_ Carr. That they could not get inside, you may be very sure, or they would not have been round it. In point of fact, the trial had not been expected to come on before the Tuesday; but in the course of Monday morning two causes had been withdrawn, and the Carr case was called on. The Nisi Prius Court immediately became filled to inconvenience, and at two o'clock the trial began. It progressed equably for some time, and then there arose a fierce discussion touching the register. Mr. Fauntleroy's counsel, Serjeant Wrangle, declaring the marriage was there up to very recently; and Mynn and Mynn's counsel, Serjeant Siftem, ridiculing the assertion. The judge called for the register. It was produced and examined. The marriage was not there, neither was there any sign of its having been abstracted. Lawrence Omer was called by Serjeant Wrangle; and he testified to having searched the register, seen the inscribed marriage, and copied the names of the witnesses to it. In proof of this, he tendered his pocket-book, where the names were written in pencil. Up rose Serjeant Siftem. "What day was this, pray?" "It was the 4th of November." "And so you think you saw, amidst the many marriages entered in the register, that of Robert Carr and Martha Ann Hughes?" "I am sure I saw it," replied Mr. Omer. "Were you alone?" "I looked over the book alone. Hunt, the clerk of the church, was present in the vestry." "It must appear to the jury as a singular thing that you only, and nobody else, should have seen this mysterious entry," continued Serjeant Siftem. "Perhaps nobody else looked for it; they'd have seen it if they had," shortly returned the witness, who felt himself an aggrieved man, and spoke like one, since Mynn and Mynn had publicly accused him that day of having gone down to St. James's in his sleep, and seen the entry in a dream alone.