"State when and under what circumstances you have previously heard it."
"At the death-bed of Mr. Ralph Mainwaring, sir, twenty-five years ago the seventeenth of last November. I was present at the making of that will, sir, the night before Mr. Mainwaring died. I heard him give those words to the lawyer, and then heard them read to him before the will was signed."
"By whom was it drawn?"
"By Richard Hobson, sir; the man sitting there," pointing to the shrinking figure of Hobson.
"Do you positively identify that man as the writer of this will?"
"That I do, sir," with marked emphasis; "when one once sets eyes on the likes o' him, he's not likely to forget him soon."
"Was Richard Hobson the attorney of Mr. Mainwaring?"
"Ah, no, sir," with evident scorn; "his attorney was Mr. Alfred Barton, the father, sir, of this gentleman," indicating the English barrister, while the interest of the crowd deepened.
"How, then, was this man employed to draw the will?"
"Mr. Barton was out of town, sir; and as Mr. Mainwaring was dying and naught would satisfy him but to have a lawyer, they brought Mr. Barton's clerk."