The doctor missed the expression of terror and dismay that flitted across Spurlock's face. The first of these, the Press Room, a dark close chamber, near Waterman's Hall, obtained its name from an immense wooden machine kept in it, with which such prisoners as refused to plead to their indictments were pressed to death—a species of inquisitorial torture not discontinued until so lately as the early part of the reign of George the Third, when it was abolished by an express statute. It fell to the ground and smoked ominously. "Coupling their presence with Jack's speech, I couldn't help fearing some mischief might ensue. "Let's try, at all events," returned the Amazon.
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