They were having it out, I thought, in the presence of the man who had made all this trouble between them." "And you left them to the task ?" "Yes, sir, but not without a struggle.

I was minded several times to return.

This I have testified to before." "Did this struggle consume forty minutes ?" "It must have and more, if I entered the hold in Cuthbert Road at the hour they state." Mr.Fox gave up the game, and I looked to be the next person called.

But it was not a part of Mr.Moffat's plan to weaken the effect of Carmel's testimony by offering any weak corroboration of facts which nobody showed the least inclination to dispute.

Satisfied with having given the jury an opportunity to contrast his client's present cheerfulness and manly aspect with the sullenness he had maintained while in doubt of Carmel's real connection with this crime, Mr.Moffat rested his case.
There was no testimony offered in rebuttal and the court took a recess.
When it reassembled I cast another anxious glance around.