Q. You suspected him, in short, of wanting to kill himself under the guise of an accident?
A. I swear he never admitted it. I swear he denied it.
Q. And you accepted his denial so implicitly that you asked him to go home, leaving his gun with the keeper. Is that not so?
A. Yes.
Q. He refused?
A. Yes, he did.
Q. Did not much the same thing occur again, later in the afternoon?
A. Nothing of the sort at all. Shortly before three he came to me, and said he was no good and was going home.
Q. What did he mean by “no good”? No good in life?
A. No good at shooting.