By Advice of Counsel

by Arthur Cheney Train

"I tell what I saw."

"What did you see?"

"I saw Hassoun break heem hees neck."

"Didn't you say first that Hassoun stabbed Babu?"

"No—nevvair!"

"Then didn't you come back and say he shot him?"

"No—nevvair!"

"And finally, didn't you say he strangled him—after you had heard that the coroner's physician had decided that that was how he was killed?"

"Yes—he break heem hees neck."

Mr. Kahoots was apparently very much bored, but he was not bored in quite the same way as the judge, who, suddenly rousing himself, asked Mr. Tutt if he had any basis for asking such questions.