“But it did not,” I asserted, with deliberate emphasis. “I knew nothing of either. My arrival happened later. Miss Cumberland’s testimony gave me my first enlightenment on these points. But I did know that the two sisters were there together, for I had a glimpse of the younger as she was leaving the house.”
“You had. And are willing to state it now?”
“Assuredly. But any testimony of that kind is for the defence, and your interests are all with the prosecution. Mr. Moffat is the man who should talk to me.”
“Does he know it?”
“Yes.”
“Who told him?”
“I did.”
“You?”
“Yes, it was my duty.”
“You are interested then in seeing young Cumberland freed?”