noon
Introduced by the commonwealth 's attorney he was sworn in as a practicing attorney of the Bell Circuit Court . He expected to see some of the Saylor family seated beyond the railing , but again was disappointed ; nor did he find them after a search through the corridors and public offices . He then went into the county clerk 's office and began making an abstract of the Brock title . At noon when he returned to the court room they were in the trial of the Saylor case . On the right sat Squire Putman and his client and behind them , Mrs. Saylor , Mary and Susie . Saylor and his counsel had an air of easy confidence ; Mrs. Saylor the set face and look of an unhappy fatalist ; Mary 's expression was one of worried interest and sadness ; Susie suppressed an occasional sob . To Cornwall the jury seemed a rather unsatisfactory one , they looked bored and unsympathetic .