You and I will certainly be witnesses.

That is what I meant to convey.

The doubt in my mind was this--whether to be actively hostile or passively friendly to the man who, next to me, was interested in the poor woman now lying dead in a wretched stable of this village." The almost diabolical cleverness of this long speech, delivered without heat and with singularly adroit stress on various passages, was revealed by its effect on Grant.

He was at once infuriated and puzzled.

Ingerman was playing him as a fisherman humors a well-hooked salmon.