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"Did your lordship give him the date of your return?" persisted Joseph, with the thorough-going air of a cross-examiner. "Yes I told him exactly when we should be back," replied the Earl. "The twelfth of May day before yesterday." Joseph moved away from the sideboard towards the hearth, and leaning against the mantelpiece threw a glance at the strong room.
"Certainly," he said promptly; "it was something Nina said that made you cry." They both laughed. "Oh, what a come-down!" she said teasingly. "You knew that before. But can you force me to confess to you what Nina was saying? If you can you are the cleverest cross-examiner in the world, for I'd rather perish than tell you " "Oh," he said instantly, "then it was something about love!"
The famous Q.C. looked, as James freely admitted, the very picture of a man who could heckle a witness. For all his experience, it so happened that he had never seen Waterbuck, Q.C., before, and, like many Forsytes in the lower branch of the profession, he had an extreme admiration for a good cross-examiner.
How could they drive you if you didn't want to go?" queried the cross-examiner. "That's on me: it was a job I pulled off two years ago in another place up north of this and the night-watchman got in the way when I was leavin'. They jerked that on me and showed me th' rope. They had me by th' neck, with th' word passed to Chief Robertson.
"Then, I am to understand" the officer met the steady gray eyes and put the question like a cross-examiner bullying a witness "I am to understand that you deliberately put behind you a career to come down here and herd these fence-jumping sheep?" "Hardly that," deprecated the head of the Souths. "They sent for me that's all. Of course, I had to come." "Why?" "Because they had sent.
"Requested by whom?" "Maggie," he drawled, "you seem to be making a go of this lady crook business but I think you might have been even more of a shining light as a criminal cross-examiner. However, I refuse to be cross-examined further. By the way," he drawled on, "how goes it with those dear souls, Barney and Old Jimmie?" She ignored his question. "Please! Who asked you not to tell?"
Rose was speechless with embarrassment, but finally managed to say, "I reckon I'm so ignorant, that I can't say the things that are in my heart. Please, Dr. Mac, you ask the reverend the questions and let me just sit and listen. Only don't use too big words, for I want to understand." "All right, I'll be cross-examiner, but please believe, Mr.
"Most extraordinary most extraordinary!" mused the Honorable Archer Converse, when he was alone. "From that meeting to an investigation from Dodd to this young man I have been leaping from crag to crag like a mountain-goat, never stopping to take breath. And here I haven't even been able to find out just who he is and they do say I'm the best cross-examiner in this state!
The friendliest man to him was Mr. Yorke, whom Keith found to be a jovial, sensible little man with kindly blue eyes and a humorous mouth. His chief cross-examiner was a Mr. Kestrel, a narrow-faced, parchment-skinned man with a thin white moustache that looked as if it had led a starved existence on his bloodless lip.
"But I didn't tell him," she confessed, stricken with a new cause for concern. "I I forgot to tell him." "Oh, you forgot to tell him?" he repeated. Now suddenly he became a cross-examiner, snapping his questions at her, catching her up sharply in her replies. "And you say you never saw this Mr. Murrill as you call him before in all your life?" "No."
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