‘About my height?’
‘Yes; about that. Summat about your size.’
Tressamer laughed, and a smile went round the court at the serious way in which the witness gave his answer.
‘Well, who else did you see?’
‘I see another man afore then.’
‘Ah! Was he tall?’
‘Why, yes; I think he was.’
The jury again looked at Lewis. But that gentleman’s face revealed no emotion, except a sort of sullen wrath which had overhung it ever since his appearance in the witness-box.
At last, when all the other witnesses had been disposed of, the policeman was called and gave the usual routine evidence.