"
Sir Terence signified that he had no more to ask, and again the
president invited the prisoner to question the witness, to receive
again the prisoner's unvarying refusal.
And now O'Moy rose in his place to announce that he had himself a
further statement to, make to the court, a statement which he had
not conceived necessary until he had heard the prisoner's account
of his movements during the half-hour he had spent at Monsanto on
the night of the duel.
"You have heard from Sergeant Flynn and my butler Mullins that the
letter carried from me by the latter to the former on the night
of the 28th was a letter for the Commissary-General of an urgent
character, to be forwarded first thing in the morning. If the
prisoner insists upon it, the Commissary-General himself may be
brought before this court to confirm my assertion that that
communication concerned a complaint from headquarters on the
subject of the tents supplied to the third division Sir Thomas
Picton's - at Celorico. The documents concerning that complaint
- that is to say, the documents upon which we are to presume that
the prisoner was at work during tine half-hour in question - were
at the time in my possession in my own private study and in another
wing of the building altogether.
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