"Did he not know you were going to make it?"
"No, sir."
"Who did know it?"
"My friend."
"No one else?"
"Well, sir, judging from my present position, I should say there seems to have been some one else," the witness slyly retorted.
The calmness with which Mr. Orcutt carried on this examination suffered a momentary disturbance.
"You know what I mean," he returned. "Did you tell any one but your friend that you were going to undertake this run?"
"No, sir."
"Mr. Hickory," the lawyer now pursued, "will you tell us why you considered yourself qualified to succeed in an attempt where you had already been told regular experts had failed?"