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Loram bowed, and as the judge subsided into his normal state of coma he turned to the triumphant witness. "Do you remember anything remarkable occurring on the twenty-third of November the year before last?" "Yes. Mr. John Bellingham called at our house." "How did you know he was Mr. John Bellingham?" "I didn't; but he said he was, and I supposed he knew." "At what time did he arrive?"
Then came the laborer who discovered the bones at Sidcup, and who repeated the evidence that he had given at the inquest, showing that the remains could not have been lying in the watercress-bed more than two years. Finally Dr. Summers was called, and, after he had given a brief description of the bones that he had examined, was asked by Mr. Loram: "You have heard the description that Mr.
"But yet you are sure about the scarab?" "Yes, quite sure." "You noticed that, then?" "No, I didn't. How could I when it wasn't there?" Mr. Loram paused and looked helplessly at the witness; a suppressed titter arose from the body of the Court, and a faint voice from the bench inquired: "Are you quite incapable of giving a straightforward answer?"
Loram; "but the point is that the testator, whose habits had always been regular and orderly, disappeared on the date mentioned without having made any of the usual provisions for the conduct of his affairs, and has not since then been seen or heard of." With this preamble Mr.
"I am asking you a question." "I know that," said the witness viciously; "and I say that you've no business to make any such insinuations to a respectable young lady when there's a cook-housekeeper and a kitchenmaid living in the house, and him old enough to be my father " Here his lordship flattened his eyelids with startling effect, and Mr. Loram interrupted: "I make no insinuations.
Loram's by stating that her name was Augustina Gwendoline Dobbs, and that she was housemaid to Mr. George Hurst, of "The Poplars," Eltham. "Mr. Hurst lives alone, I believe?" said Mr. Loram. "I don't know what you mean by that," Miss Dobbs began; but the barrister explained: "I mean that I believe he is unmarried?" "Well, and what about it?" the witness demanded tartly.
And he had a curious frog-like trick of flattening his eyelids as if in the act of swallowing a large beetle which was the only outward and visible sign of emotion that he ever displayed. As soon as the swearing-in of the jury was completed Mr. Loram rose to introduce the case; whereupon his lordship leaned back in his chair and closed his eyes, as if bracing himself for a painful operation.
"How should you describe his figure?" "I should describe him as rather broad and stout in build, and fairly muscular, though not exceptionally so." Mr. Loram made a rapid note of these answers, and then said: "You have told us, Mr. Jellicoe, that you have known the testator intimately for twenty-seven years. Now, did you ever notice whether he was accustomed to wear any rings upon his fingers?"
You have to slam the gate to make the latch fasten, so no one could have gone out of that gate without being heard." Here the examination-in-chief ended, and Mr. Loram sat down with an audible sigh of relief. Miss Dobbs was about to step down from the witness-box when Mr. Heath rose to cross-examine. "Did you see Mr. Bellingham in a good light?" he asked. "Pretty good.
Bellingham asked. "That is Mr. Loram, K.C., Mr. Hurst's counsel; and the convivial-looking gentleman next to him is our counsel, Mr. Heath, a most able man and" here Mr. Marchmont whispered behind his hand "fully instructed by Doctor Thorndyke."
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