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Time, which waits for no man, at last brought around the day of trial, and seldom had the Sydney law courts witnessed a more crowded or excited scene. Tickets for admission had been issued in view of the throngs of people who were determined, if possible, to be present.
As is usual on such occasions when the community has been carried away by a sensation or a craze, the published facts of the case had been very much exaggerated. Mrs Dalbert's picture had got into the papers, and her beauty and irresistible charm had been wonderfully expatiated upon. Of Owen Skinner very little had been gleaned by the most ubiquitous reporter. Except to his legal advisers he was doggedly silent.