"Eventually, then, what was it that you saw?"
"I saw a man lying on the ground, and another kneeling over him,
and then - almost at once - Mullins came out, and - "
"I don't think we need take this any further, Major Swan," the
president again interposed. "We have heard what happened after
Mullins came out."
"Unless the prisoner wishes - " began the judge-advocate.
"By no means," said Tremayne composedly. Although outwardly
impassive, he had been watching her intently, and it was his eyes
that had perturbed her more than anything in that court. It was
she who must determine for him how to proceed; how far to defend
himself. He had hoped that by now Dick Butler might have been got
away, so that it would have been safe to tell the whole truth,
although he began to doubt how far that could avail him, how far,
indeed, it would be believed in the absence of Dick Butler. Her
evidence told him that such hopes as he may have entertained had
been idle, and that he must depend for his life simply upon the
court's inability to bring the guilt home to him. In this he had
some confidence, for, knowing himself innocent, it seemed to him
incredible that he could be proven guilty. Failing that, nothing
short of the discovery of the real slayer of Samoval could save him
- and that was a matter wrapped in the profoundest mystery.
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