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Whereupon Bones swore to himself that he would carefully avoid corresponding with any person who might have the remotest acquaintance with the remotest of Hamilton's relatives. Every mail night Captain Hamilton underwent a cross-examination which at once baffled and annoyed him. Picture a great room, the walls of varnished match-boarding, the bare floor covered in patches by skins.
Then advantage was taken of the opportunity to skip up a staircase and, opening a door that had the word "Inquiries" painted upon it, set upon the task of routing the defence, to obtain an interview with some responsible individual. Usually the answer was that no vacancy existed, but this did not prevent a brief cross-examination.
But to-day, it was impossible the boy shouldn't see him; and if the boy should recognise him why, then, Heaven help him. The lad gave his evidence-in-chief with great care and deliberateness. He swore positively to Guy, and wasn't for a moment to be shaken in cross-examination.
Like a good lawyer, he slipped in the crucial question of his cross-examination between two blind ones. "All who die outside of the church go to Hell, don't they?" he asked. "Sister Sulpicia says so." He pursued the line no further; he never needed to; and after a time the storm of doctrine died down in her.
But the thought that slightly worried the younger man was the ease, the unconcern of his future partner's attitude. It disquieted him because it increased his responsibility. But long ago he had learned the generous nature of the Great Bud. Long ago he had realized his trusting simplicity. Now he would have preferred a keen cross-examination of his statement.
'Fraid you'll have to ask him, Princess Sofia." Genuinely diverted by the cross-examination, he awaited with unruffled good humour the next question to be put by this amazingly collected and direct young person. But Sofia hesitated. She didn't want to be rude, and Karslake seemed to be telling a tolerably straight story; still, she couldn't altogether believe in him as yet.
Christian's colour betrayed her, and she knew it, and knowing also the remorseless cross-examination that the betrayal would immediately provoke, she decided to anticipate it. "As a matter of fact," she went on, "he we " she hated the crudity of the statement. "You're engaged!" swooped Judith, with the speed of a hawk. "Excellent girl!" Christian found the commendation offensive.
In the course of the cross-examination Mrs Greenow got much information out of him; and then, when she was satisfied that she had learned, not exactly all the truth, but certain indications of the truth, she forgave him all his offences. "And now you will give a fellow a kiss, just one kiss," said the ecstatic Captain, in the height of his bliss.
"No, no. It was the truth. You are seeking now to buoy me up with false hope. It is sixteen hundred miles from Hong Kong to Singapore, and half as much from Siam to Borneo. The Sirdar might have been driven anywhere in the typhoon. Didn't you say so, Mr. Jenks?" He wavered under this merciless cross-examination. "I had no idea your memory was so good," he said, weakly. "Excellent, I assure you.
Without a word or attempting to enter into any explanations which, under cross-examination, might become embarrassing, Fanny went to Virginia's room and knocked at the door. "It's someone to see you, Virgie!" she called out. "To see me?" echoed Virginia in a surprised tone. "Yes." "Very well, I'll be there in just a minute."
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