"
"Pacing in front of quarters, sir."
"Did you notice the windows of the building at all during that time?"
"I can't say that I did, sir."
"Why not?"
"Why not?" echoed the private.
"Yes - why not? Don't repeat my words. How did it happen that
you didn't notice the windows?"
"Because they were in darkness, sir."
O'Moy's eyes gleamed. "All of them?"
"Certainly, sir, all of them."
"You are quite certain of that?"
"Oh, quite certain, sir. If a light had shown from one of them I
couldn't have failed to notice it."
"That will do."
"Captain Tremayne - " began the president.
"I have no questions for the witness, sir," Tremayne announced.
Sir Harry's face expressed surprise. "After the statement he has
just made?" he exclaimed, and thereupon he again invited the prisoner,
in a voice that was as grave as his countenance, to cross-examine
he witness; he did more than invite - he seemed almost to plead.
But Tremayne, preserving by a miracle his outward calm, for all that
inwardly he was filled with despair and chagrin to see what a pit
he had dug for himself by his falsehood, declined to ask any
questions.
Private Bates retired, and Mullins was recalled. A gloom seemed to
have settled now upon the court.
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