"Why, the Captain's death."
"You mean to say by that, that arrangements had been made by certain persons to kill Captain Ussher?"
"I don't know about arrangements; but there war boys through the counthry determined to have a fling at him."
"Now I am going to ask you a question particularly affecting the prisoner, and one to which you must give me a direct answer. Have you ever been in the prisoner's company, when he and others have expressed their determination to murder Captain Ussher?"
"Faix, I don't know about dethermination and murder, but I've heard him threatened."
"Have you heard him threatened with murder?"
"I've heard the boys say that he would be undher the sod that day six months."
"Have you heard Captain Ussher threatened with death in the prisoner's presence?"
"I don't know that they ever said death or murder; they don't spake out that way; av they war going to hole a chap, it's giving him his quiatis or his gruel they'd be talking about."
"Well, now, on your oath, have you ever, in the prisoner's presence, heard such language used respecting Captain Ussher as made you think that he was to be killed?"