He walks in quiet and a little proud; he couldn't help feeling it, but he didn't show it in his ways and talk, as little as any man I ever saw.
He's asked by the Crown Prosecutor if he's seen the bull outside of the court this day.
'Yes; he has seen him.' 'Has he ever seen him before ?' 'Never, to his knowledge.' 'He doesn't, then, know the name of his former owner ?' 'Has heard generally that he belonged to Mr.Hood, of Momberah; but does not know it of his own knowledge.' 'Has he ever seen, or does he know either of the prisoners ?' 'Knows the younger prisoner, who has been in the habit of working for him in various ways.' 'When was prisoner Marston working for him last ?' 'He, with his brother James, who rendered his family a service he shall never forget, was working for him, after last shearing, for some months.' 'Where were they working ?' 'At an out-station at the back of the run.' 'When did they leave ?' 'About April or May last.' 'Was it known to you in what direction they proceeded after leaving your service ?' 'I have no personal knowledge; I should think it improper to quote hearsay.' 'Had they been settled up with for their former work ?' 'No, there was a balance due to them.' 'To what amount ?' 'About twenty pounds each was owing.' 'Did you not think it curious that ordinary labourers should leave so large a sum in your hands ?' 'It struck me as unusual, but I did not attach much weight to the circumstance.

I thought they would come back and ask for it before the next shearing.

I am heartily sorry that they did not do so, and regret still more deeply that two young men worthy of a better fate should have been arraigned on such a charge.' 'One moment, Mr.Falkland,' says our counsel, as they call them, and a first-rate counsellor ours was.

If we'd been as innocent as two schoolgirls he couldn't have done more for us.

'Did the prisoner Marston work well and conduct himself properly while in your employ ?' 'No man better,' says Mr.Falkland, looking over to me with that pitying kind of look in his eyes as made me feel what a fool and rogue I'd been ten times worse than anything else.