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Jenkyns, talking in a very grand manner as though he were on a stage in a theatre: "there is in this court-room at the present moment a bulldog, who was the only living thing that saw the man killed. With the Court's permission I propose to put that dog in the witness-stand and have him questioned before you by the eminent scientist, Doctor John Dolittle."
Sharpman began the proceedings by offering in evidence the files of the Register's court, showing the date of Robert Burnham's death, the issuing of letters of administration to his widow, and the inventory and appraisement of his personal estate. Then he called Simon Craft to the witness-stand.
He pointed out to Joe that, since he had taken the witness-stand, he had thus professed his willingness to lay bare all his knowledge of the tragedy, and that his reservation was an indication of insincerity. The one way in which he could have withheld information not of a self-incriminating nature, was for him to have kept off the stand.
Recriminations were hot and many. Mr. Andrew Lang should give us in a dialogue between dead authors, a meeting in Hades between the two; it would be worth any climatic risk to be present and hear what was said; Lady Mary, who may once more be put on the witness-stand, tells how, being in residence in Italy, and a box of light literature from England having arrived at ten o'clock of the night, she could not but open it and "falling upon Fielding's works, was fool enough to sit up all night reading.
Anything very strange? Has it been testified here to-day that Mr. Cowperwood was not the agent of the city for the transaction of just such business as he said on that occasion that he had transacted? Did any one say here on the witness-stand that he had not bought city loan as he said he had? "Why is it then that Mr. Stener charges Mr.
Cummings' eye flared suspicion at me, and his voice was a menace. "You keep out of this, Boyne." "You tell what's up your sleeve, Cummings," I countered. "This is no witness-stand cross-examination. What you got?" But Worth answered for him, hotly, "If Cummings hasn't seventy-two thousand dollars I commissioned him to raise for me, I don't care what he's got."
Sharpman," he said, "you know, as well as I do, that the knowledge I hold is extremely dangerous to you. I can back up my assertion by any amount of corroborative detail. I am thoroughly familiar with the facts, and if I were to go on the witness-stand to-morrow for the defendant in this suit, your hopes and schemes would vanish into thin air.
I believe in you. I would trust you, Richling," his listener remembered how the speaker had trusted him, and was melted, "but as to recommending you, why, that is like going upon the witness-stand, as it were, and I cannot say that I know anything." Richling's face suddenly flashed full of light. He touched the Doctor's hand. "That's it! That's the very thing, sir! Write that!"
"Well, good morning," said 'Manda Grier, and she thrust her elbow sharply into Statira Dudley's side, so that she also said faintly "Well, good morning!" She was fluent enough on the witness-stand and in the police station, but now she could not find a word to say. The three stood together on the threshold of the court-house, not knowing how to get away from one another.
This costume would not be unbecoming to a pretty face and figure: whether there are any such native to Switzerland, I trust I may not be put upon the witness-stand to declare. Some of the peasant young men went without coats, and with the shirt sleeves fluted; and others wore butternut-colored suits, the coats of which I can recommend to those who like the swallow-tailed variety.
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