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He lived close by; every step of the country was no doubt familiar to him; he had come to the camp under very suspicious circumstances, bringing with him a stranger in disguise. He had given plausible answers to the cross-questioning of Girasole; but those were empty words, which went for nothing in the presence of the living facts that now stood before him in the presence of the enemy.
"She said that which left on my mind an impression that she would sooner that I did not come." "What did she say?" "How can I answer such a question as that, Kennedy? Is it fair to ask it?" "Quite fair, I think." "I think it quite unfair, and I must decline to answer it. I cannot imagine what you expect to gain by cross-questioning me in this way.
When you talk of not loving John, does that mean does it mean that you are engaged to anyone else?" "No, it does not." "And it does not mean that there is anyone else whom you are thinking of marrying?" "I am not thinking of marrying anyone." "Or that you love any other man?" "You are cross-questioning me, aunt, more than is fair." "Then there is some one?" "No, there is nobody.
Of what had passed afterwards, of the bullying, and the challenge, and the submission, O'Tara knew nothing; but King Corny having once been put on the right scent, soon made it all out. He sent for Moriarty, and cross-questioning him, heard the whole; for Moriarty had not been sworn to secrecy, and had very good ears.
Retief has always been supposed to have been drowned in the keg. Where's he been all the time?" The half-breed grinned. Then his face became suddenly serious. He began to think the cross-questioning was becoming too hot He decided to draw on his imagination. "Peter was no more drowned than I was. He tricked you us all into that belief. Gee! but he's slick. Peter went to Montana.
And with that injunction the little old maid hopped away, leaving me to the scrutiny and cross-questioning of a rather pretty woman of twenty-eight or thirty. "Ever worked in a factory before?" she began, with lofty indifference, as if it didn't matter whether I had or had not. "No." "Where did you work?" "I never worked any place before." "Oh-h!"
"I noticed you turn pale when we first sighted the lights, Ballard." "Did you?" "I did." Ballard stepped close to Sol Burton, and demanded in a determined tone "What are you getting at? I don't like this cross-questioning." "That's my idea, Ballard. I don't think you like this cross-questioning, and I think further there is a good reason for you not liking it."
Very severe was the cross-questioning which the lads had to undergo in the midshipmen's berth as to the manner in which they came by their cut faces, and they were obliged to take refuge under the strict order of the first lieutenant that they were to say nothing about it.
Most of those present remembered seeing the order, now that it was mentioned, and the general, turning to Terence, who was colouring scarlet with embarrassment and confusion, said, kindly: "You see, we have got at it after all, Mr. O'Connor. I am glad that it came from another source, for I do not suppose that we should have got all the facts from you, even by cross-questioning.
Work which according to any equitable, reasonable, or even decent procedure should have been entrusted to the first lawyers of the country preparing the case upon the law and the facts with the documents before them, with the power of cross-questioning witnesses and sifting evidence, and enlightened by constant conferences with the illustrious prisoner himself came entirely upon his own shoulders, enfeebled as he was by age, physical illness, and by the exhaustion of along imprisonment.
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