The serving of those summonses had an instant and very remarkable effect. This effect was, that three of the inhabitants of Llanyglo straightway lost all recollection of the English language. And not only did they, the summoned ones, lose it, but every witness called from Llanyglo fell into an ignorance as blank. This happened at Sessions, before Squire Wynne himself, who, in the days before this visitation of forgetfulness, had talked English to all of them. The gloomy magistrates' Court opposite Porth Neigr railway station was crowded. Terry Armfield, at whose instance the summonses had been issued, thought he had never seen such a set of pigjobbers as stood against the perspiring walls or sat with their chins on their outspread forearms, their caps in their hands or in the pockets of their corduroys. The two men who had put up the fences sat in the well of the Court. They were brothers, and their name was Kerr. The skylight shone on the baldish head of the elder of them, and both had given their evidence in a strong Lancashire accent. They had been watching on the sandhills, they said, expecting something of the sort, and knew that it had taken place at exactly ten o'clock, because they had both looked at their watches.... So "Dim Saesneg," said man after man; and the Squire could only make dots with his pen on the blotting-paper before him, keep his eyes from Terry Armfield, and call for an interpreter. Now interpretation takes time, during which time the person with most to gain can be thinking of the tale he will tell next. So the prosecuting solicitor stood up before Dafydd Dafis, and this kind of thing began: "Were you on this land at ten o'clock that night?" ("_Oeddych chi ar y tir yma am ddeg o'r gloch y noson hono, Dafydd Dafis?_" This from the interpreter.) A rapid denial from Dafydd, not a hair of his shaggy moustache moving. "Ask him where he was." "_Lle r'oeddych chi, Dafydd Dafis?_" The harpist, his fingers twisting his cap, answered that he had been at Pritchard's farm, and this also was translated. "Have you any witnesses?" ("_Oes genych chi dystion, Dafydd Dafis?_") "Eh?" "_Oes genych chi dystion?_" "_R'oeddwn efo John Willie Garden._" ("He says he can call the son of the man who is building a house there, sir.") ...