A. A man may think things.
Q. Will you answer my question?
A. Well, then, I didn’t.
Q. Are you speaking the truth?
A. Yes.
Witness was subjected to some severe cross-questioning on this point, but persisted in his refusal to associate his suspicions with any particular person. He argued only negatively, he said, from the deceased’s indifference to himself, which (he declared amid some laughter) was utterly incomprehensible to him on any other supposition than that of a previous attachment. Counsel then continued:—
Q. When, after leaving the garden, you were making for the Red Deer, did you observe any other figure on the hill, going in the same direction as yourself, but in advance of you?
A. There may have been. I won’t answer for sure.
Q. Will you explain what you mean by that?
A. I was what you might call preoccupied—not thinking much of anything but my own trouble. But—yes, I have an idea there was some one.