Where was it agreed between the prisoner and his _officers_, that the former should find the lugger, when he returned from his expedition into the Bay ?" "Well, now, gentlemen," answered Ithuel, turning his quid from one cheek into the other, "I _some_ conclude you've no great acquaintance with Captain Rule, a'ter all.

He is not apt to enter into any agreements at all.

What he wants done, he orders; and what he orders, must be done." "What did he _order_, then, as respects the place where the lugger was to wait for his return ?" "I am sorry to be troublesome, please the court," returned the witness, with admirable self-possession; "but law is law, all over the world, and I rather guess this question is ag'in it.

In the Granite State, it is always held, when a thing can be proved by the person who said any particular words, that the question must be put to him, and not to a bystander." "Not if that person is a prisoner, and on his trial," answered the Judge Advocate, staring to hear such a distinction from such a source; "though the remark is a good one, in the cases of witnesses purely.

You must answer, therefore." "It is unnecessary," again interposed Raoul.