There was another pause.
"I said: 'What! More?'"
In cross-examination the counsel for the defence asked the young banker what he meant when he said to the prisoner—"'What! More?'"
Silver was silent.
"Were you referring to the fact that the accused had been in trouble?"
"Yes."
"And you're a sportsman?"
No answer.
"And a gentleman?"
In his speech for the prosecution counsel pointed out that the motive for the crime—the one point in doubt—had been established. Joses had been a little too clever and had established it himself. He had supplied the one missing link, and would be hung in a chain of his own making. The two men had come to words and blows. Joses, smarting alike in body and mind, had trotted home and, beside himself with rage and a desire for revenge, had committed this most insensate and abominable crime.