She said "Yes."
"And that is how the money was lost," persisted Saunders.
"Possibly," said the judge.
"I'm darned if it was," said Joshua Fullalove composedly.
Instantly, all heads were turned in amazement at this audacious
interruption to the soporific decorum of an English court. The
transatlantic citizen received this battery of eyes with complete
imperturbability.
"Si-lence!" roared the crier, awaking from a nap, with an instinct that
something unusual had happened. But the shrewd old judge had caught the
sincerity with which the words were uttered, and put on his spectacles to
examine the speaker.
"Are you for the plaintiff or the defendant?"
"I don't know either of 'em from Adam, my lord. But I know Captain Dodd's
pocket-book by the bullet-hole."
"Indeed! You had better call this witness, Mr. Colt."
Your lordship must excuse me; I am quite content with my evidence," said
the wary advocate.
"Well then, I shall call him as _amicus curiae;_ and the defendant's
counsel can cross-examine him."
Fullalove went into the box, was sworn, identified the pocket-book, and
swore he had seen fourteen thousand pounds in it on two occasions.
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