as alive?"

"No, sir, I ran away;" and Harry could not restrain a laugh at the
remembrance of the scene.

"Harry, is your father in this room?"

Harry looked at his father with a smile, and answered, "Yes, sir."

"Now, Harry, I want you to pick him out from all these people. Be sure
not to make any mistake. Mr. Belcher has been so anxious to find him,
that I presume he will be very much obliged to you for the information.
Go and put your hand on him."

Harry started at a run, and, dodging around the end of the bar, threw
himself into his father's arms. The performance seemed so comical to the
lad, that he burst into a peal of boyish laughter, and the scene had
such a pretty touch of nature in it, that the spectators cheered, and
were only checked by the stern reprimand of the judge, who threatened
the clearing of the room if such a demonstration should again be
indulged in.

"Does the counsel for the defence wish to cross-examine the witness?"
inquired the judge.

"I believe not," said Mr. Cavendish, with a nod; and then Harry went to
his seat, at the side of Jim Fenton, who hugged him so that he almost
screamed. "Ye're a brick, little feller," Jim whispered. "That was a
Happy David, an' a Goliar into the bargin. You've knocked the Ph'listine
this time higher nor a kite."

"May it please the Court," said Mr. Cavendish, "I have witnesses here
who knew Paul Benedict during all his residence in Sevenoaks, and who
are ready to testify that they do not know the person who presents
himself here to-day, as the plaintiff in this case. I comprehend the
disadvantage at which I stand, with only negative testimony at my
command. I know how little value it has, when opposed to such as has
been presented here; and while I am convinced that my client is wronged,
I shall be compelled, in the end, to accept the identity of the
plaintiff as established. If I believed the real Paul Benedict, named in
the patents in question, in this case, to be alive, I should be
compelled to fight this question to the end, by every means in my power,
but the main question at issue, as to whom the title to these patents
rests in, can be decided between my client and a man of straw, as well
as between him and the real inventor. That is the first practical issue,
and to save the time of the Court, I propose to proceed to its trial;
and first I wish to cross-examine the plaintiff."

Mr. Benedict resumed the stand.

"Witness, you pretend to be th