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Peetka made remarks in Ingalik. "Father MacManus, him all right?" asked Kurilla, politely cloaking his cross-examination. "MacManus? Do you mean Wills, or the Superior, Father Brachet?" "Oh yes! MacManus at Tanana." He spoke as though inadvertently he had confused the names. As the strangers gave him the winter's news from Holy Cross, his wonder and astonishment grew.

As for the cross-examination, it took place in the evening, when Geoffrey was tired, and Tanaka was taking off his boots. "Previous to the fiancée," Tanaka began, "did Lady Barrington live long time in Japan?" He was lavish with titles, considering that money and nobility in such people must be inseparable; besides, experience had taught him that the use of such honorifics never came amiss.

Then the conversation in the hotel recurred to him. 'He said that he wanted to do a good turn to me and to you also. 'What had you done for him? 'Nothing whatever. Apparently James Quinn was not in the least vexed at the brevity of the answers he received, or disturbed because his cross-examination was obviously disagreeable to Hyacinth.

The jury smiled incredulously. Charles had given himself away. His overweening confidence and certainty had ruined him. Then Colonel Clay, leaning forward, and looking quite engaging, began a new line of cross-examination. "We have seen, Sir Charles," he said, "that we cannot implicitly trust your identifications. Now let us see how far we can trust your other evidence.

Yet when Tutt upon cross-examination sought to attack her credibility by asking her various pertinent questions they unhesitatingly accepted his implied accusations as true, though under the rules of evidence he was bound by her denials. Peck 1: "Did you not knock Mrs. Appleboy's flower pots off the piazza?" he demanded significantly. "Never! I never did!" she declared passionately

Mamma is excused with a headache, but she has left me power of attorney to ask questions about our little venture." "I hope the attorney will not put me through a cross-examination." "That depends upon how you have been behaving, Mr. Henderson. I'm not very cross yet. Now, sit there so that I can look at you and see how honest you are."

The cross-examination puzzled him more and more, and through it, for the first time, he began to feel dimly, ran a certain strain of something not quite right, not permissible in the biggest sense. It was not the questions themselves that produced this odd and rather disquieting impression, but the fact that Mr. Skale was preparing the ground with such extraordinary thoroughness.

In point of interest, however, we must admit that his ability in a cross-examination ranks next to his skill in planning an alibi.

He, too, "caught a Tartar." And before the cross-examination was concluded, Capitola's apt and cutting replies had overwhelmed him with ridicule and confusion, and done more for the cause of her friend than all her partisans put together!

I have not studied de Barral but that is how I understand him so far as he could be understood through the din of the crash; the wailing and gnashing of teeth, the newspaper contents bills, `The Thrift Frauds. Cross-examination of the accused.