"His stepfather was shot in 1844. He had gone to sleep after dinner, which, I believe, was his custom, and from that sleep he was not allowed to wake. His mother was ill upstairs, and Rush's account was that he (Rush) had gone upstairs, leaving his gun on a table; that, hearing a shot, he went downstairs and found the gun and his stepfather on the floor, the gun having exploded and killed the latter." Rush himself gave the intelligence to the coroner, and he was the only witness. His story was believed and a verdict of accidental death was returned, but the subsequent career of Rush leaves little doubt that the guilt of this murder also lay upon so much of conscience as he possessed. Stanfield Hall, then, a very beautiful building still, although full of tragic memories, may justly claim to have been the scene of crimes as brutal, planned by a brain as devilish and ruthless, as ever were committed in England or found in man. From Wymondham we swung on to Norwich easily, and without difficulty or incident of any kind, and at half-past six or thereabouts passed under an archway into the Court of the "Maid's Head"; and the "Maid's Head" is an absolute reason for ending one chapter and beginning another. CHAPTER V SPRING. [IN NORWICH] AND TO ELY AND CAMBRIDGE The entry into Norwich--The "Maid's Head"--Preserved from modernity by Mr. Walter Rye--A car in the yard quite incongruous--Queen Elizabeth's chamber--The Duke of Norfolk--Macaulay's description of his predecessors in the seventeenth century--Their pomp and hospitality--The contrast--Norwich trade, past and present--The Pastons and the "Maid's Head"--A cavalier house--Surprised Freemasons--Meaning of "Maid's Head"--The Cathedral at night--Blocked by houses--Cathedral society--Trollope--A vision of the east end of the cathedral--The cattle market--Local breeds prevail--A wise practice--But Jerseys best for private houses--Cleanliness of the general market--In the cathedral--Start--Make sure of exits--The Earlham Road--The Gurneys of Earlham--Norfolk dialect--The breath of spring--Chaucer and Norfolk--Lynn's idle claim--Kimberley Hall--The Wodehouse crest--Hingham Church--Hingham, Massachusetts--Scoulton Mere--Black-headed gulls--Gastronomic advice--A land of heaths--Fast running--Another car overtaken--Dust realized--Watton and Wayland Wood--not "the Babes'" wood--Brandon--Gunflints and rabbits--Mildenhall--Fordham--Soham--First view of Ely--Glorious but delayed--Better from railway--Later view less satisfying--Beauty of Bishop's Palace--Distressing verger causes retreat from cathedral--Home viâ Cambridge and Royston--A thorough wetting.