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"My dear Gerwazy," said the Apparitor, "why be so huffy? I am an

apparitor; it is not my business to discuss the case. Everybody

knows that a party to a suit summons an apparitor and dictates to

him whatever he chooses, and the apparitor proclaims it. The

apparitor is the ambassador of the law, and ambassadors are not

subject to punishment, so that I do not know why you keep me

under guard. I will immediately write an act if some one will

only bring me a lantern, but meanwhile I proclaim: Brothers, come

to order!"