'Good God!' he says, 'ye'll never be after thinking I kilt him?
I tell you I just found him here like this.' 'What were ye doing here, then ?' says Sir Terence.

'I was coming to see you,' says the captain.

'What about ?' says Sir Terence, and with that the captain got angry, said he refused to be cross-questioned and went off to report himself under arrest as he was bid." That closed the butler's evidence, and the judge-advocate looked across at the prisoner.
"Have you any questions for the witness ?" he inquired.
"None," replied Captain Tremayne.

"He has given his evidence very faithfully and accurately." Major Swan invited the court to question the witness in any manner it considered desirable.

The only one to avail himself of the invitation was Carruthers, who, out of his friendship and concern for Tremayne--and a conviction of Tremayne's innocence begotten chiefly by that friendship desired to bring out anything that might tell in his favour.
"What was Captain Tremayne's bearing when he spoke to you and to Sir Terence ?" "Quite as usual, sir." "He was quite calm, not at all perturbed ?" "Devil a bit; not until Sir Terence ordered him under arrest, and then he was a little hot." "Thank you, Mullins." Dismissed by the court, Mullins would have departed, but that upon being told by the sergeant-major that he was at liberty to remain if he chose he found a seat on one of the benches ranged against the wall.
The next witness was Sir Terence, who gave his evidence quietly from his place at the board immediately on the president's right.