Excerpt from The Spur of Danger Of course Justice Evers heard this as plainly as any one else, but without a hitch to his dignity he went on his way to the bench as if he had heard nothing, though his thin lips were twitching as he took his seat with grave deliberation. A porten tous Silence fell on the gathering, and for a moment nothing could be heard save a Slight shuffling of feet on the bare floor, hardly noise enough to drown the tick of the great clock over the dais. No court of law within his majesty's realm had ever been thus flouted. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.