When he left the hut it was dark." "Should you know the other man, the one who was addressed as sir knight, if you saw him again ?" "I should," Walter replied.

He then gave an account of the attack upon the boat, but said that in the suddenness of the affair and the growing darkness he noticed none of the figures distinctly enough to recognize them again.

Two or three of the other apprentices gave similar testimony as to the attack.
A gentleman then presented himself, and gave his name as Sir William de Hertford.

He said that he had come at the request of the Lady Alice Vernon, who was still suffering from the effects of the wound and immersion.

She had requested him to say that at some future occasion she would appear to testify, but that in the confusion and suddenness of the attack she had noticed no faces in the boat which assailed them, and could identify none concerned in the affair.
The justice who had headed the attack on the hut then gave his evidence as to that affair, the armourer also relating the incidents of the conflict.
"The prisoners will be committed for trial," the justice said.