“That, as the jury can see if they will look, is diagonally opposite the one at which the witness had heard his cousin pause. Will the witness now state if the hall was too dark at the time he looked out for him to see whether or not any one stood at his uncle’s door?”
“No, it was not too dark for that, owing to the light which shone in from the street through the large window you see there.”
“Enough, you say, to make your uncle’s door visible?”
“Quite enough.”
“And what did you see there? Your cousin standing?”
“No; he was gone.”
“How gone? Could he not have been in your uncle’s room?”
“Not then.”
“Why do you say ‘not then’?”
“Because while I looked I could hear his footsteps at the other end of the house rounding the corner where the main hall meets the little one in which his room is situated.”