"Mr. Hickory, were you present in the court-room just now when the two experts whom I have employed to make the run gave their testimony?"
"No, sir."
"Do you know in what time they made it?"
"I believe I do. I was told by the person whom I informed of my failure that I had gained five minutes upon them."
"And what did you reply?"
"That I hoped I could make something on them; but that five minutes wasn't much when a clean fifteen was wanted," returned Hickory, with another droll look at the experts and an askance appeal at Byrd, which being translated might read: "How in the deuce could this man have known what I was whispering to you on the other side of the court-room? Is he a wizard, this Orcutt?"
He forgot that a successful lawyer is always more or less of a wizard.