Mr. Clegg (holding a yellow envelope in his hand): Have you read the contents of this?—​Yes, excepting something I could not make out.

Will you swear that is not your handwriting?—​I swear there are none of them in my writing.

Mr. Pollard: I think you need hardly put it to her now, because she has sworn over and over again that there are none of them in her writing.

Mr. Clegg (to witness): Did you ever give the prisoner an American cent?—​No.

Did you ever borrow any money from him?—​No.

Not at all?—​I never did.

Mr. Clegg, reading: “Things are looking very bad, for people told him everything. (Then there is something missing.) Pick out F. D.” Do you know what that means?—​No.

Mr. Clegg (again reading): “Do keep quiet, and don’t let any one see you.” You did not write that? No; I did not write that.

The Stipendiary: She says she didn’t write these letters.

Mr. Clegg: Well, I wish to question her on the point.