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SYLVESTER SOUND

"And have held it for the last seven years?"

"I have."

"Do you remember the morning of the 5th of last month?"

"I do."

"State to the court what then occurred."

"About three o'clock that morning, on going up stairs, I saw Mr. Sound coming slowly from the ante-room which leads to Lady Julian's chamber, and conceiving that he had called professionally, I returned, opened the door, and let him out."

"You know the defendant well?"

"Quite well."

"You know the defendant quite well. Now, just pay attention to the question I'm about to ask. Is it possible for you to have been mistaken?"

"No: that is quite impossible."

"Quite impossible. Did you let him in?"

"No."

"Who let him in?"

"I can't say."

"Did either of the other servants let him in?"

"They all declare that they did not."

"Is there any window through which he might have entered?"

"There is no window he could have got in at."

"Then the presumption is, that Lady Julian let him in herself?"

"I don't know; but I think that if she had let him in, she would also have let him out."

"I don't ask you what you think! You didn't let him in, nor did either of the other servants let him in. The presumption, therefore, is that she let him in herself. But you are quite sure that it was Mr. Sound, the defendant, whom you saw coming slowly from the anteroom, and whom you let out of the house?"

"I am quite sure."

"That you swear to?"

"I do."

"Solemnly?"

"Most solemly."

Mr. Slashinger then rose to cross-examine this witness.

"You know Mr. Sound, the defendant in this action, quite well?"

"I do."

"You have known him for some years?"

"I have."

"As the assistant of Mr. Scholefield, the medical adviser of Lady Julian, he used to come frequently to the house?"

"Very frequently."

"Both with Mr. Scholefield, and alone?"

"Very frequently alone."

"Now, Mr. Thompson, I am going to put to you a most important question, and your well-known honesty and integrity prompts me to believe that you will answer it in a candid and straightforward manner.