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Updated: May 17, 2025
He took his eyes off her to look attentively round the room. Uncle Mo's sporting prints, prized records of ancient battles, caught his eye. "Ho that's it, is it?" said he, with a short nod of illumination, as though he had made a point as a cross-examiner. "That's where we are Figg and Broughton Corbet Spring?... That's your game, is it? Now the question is, where the devil do I come in?
In the old days haphazard marriages were rather the rule than the exception, and such things as registers were never heard of in far-out parts. His trained mind, going through the various questions that a cross-examiner would ask, and supplying the requisite answers, decided that, though it might seem a trifle improbable, there was nothing contradictory about Peggy's story.
"'The King had died, and whenever Koreans are in mourning they wear straw shoes, "'That is a lie, said the cross-examiner. He then arose and took my mouth in his two hands and pulled it each way so that it bled. I maintained that I had told the truth and no falsehoods. 'You Christians are all liars, he replied, taking my arm and giving it a pull.
"During the whole of the following day he was on the stand under a perfect fusillade of questions from my learned friend, admittedly the most brilliant cross-examiner at the bar. He did not succeed in shaking the prisoner's story in any important particular.
A barrister in barnacles is a far more formidable cross-examiner than one without. But, to his lordship's back. 'Will he eat bread out of your hand? asked Amelia, adding, 'I should so like a horse that would eat bread out of my hand. 'Oh yes; or cheese either, replied his lordship, who was a bit of a wag, and as likely to try a horse with one as the other.
He denied everything and defended himself well; although he was in fear all the time that some unwary word or unwise denial should betray him to his cross-examiner who, being herself no mean expert in the double-dealing arts, could frequently learn as much from a lie as from the truth.
And it was almost a feeling of pity that was entertained for this woman against whom all the circumstances seemed to be conspiring, and who defended herself so badly that her cross-examiner hesitated to press her yet further. M. Desmalions, in fact, wore an irresolute air, as if the victory had been too easy, and as if he had some scruple about pursuing it.
"It's getting to be a sad game"; she said. "It's my turn now. I'll be the cross-examiner, but not having had your legal training, I'll tell you a few facts about this witness to begin with. He's a lawyer; I know that already. Your Christian name, sir?" "Mark." "Mark Lavendar. 'Mark the perfect man. Where have I heard that; in Pope or in the Bible?
The prisoner's evidence concluded with a perfectly simple if somewhat hesitating account of her own doings during the remainder of the night of her husband's murder. That story has already been told in greater detail than could be extracted even by the urbane but deadly cross-examiner who led for the Crown.
Durkin looked at his cross-examiner, nettled and impatient. "I could!" "But will you?" "Yes, on the condition I have implied!" "In other words, you stand ready to bribe us into a doubtful and hazardous movement against the strongest gambler in all New York, on the expectation of an adequate bribe! This office, sir, accepts no bribes!" "I would not call it bribery!"
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