MOBLEY WESTBROOK.
This letter was then marked "Exhibit B," and became a part of the records of the case.
"Was it your intention to send this letter to Señor de Sanchez?" the examination proceeded.
"Yes. Had events terminated differently, I should have sent the letter to him that same night."
Mr. Merkel here referred to the missive, saying, "In this letter occurs the phrase, 'My father's attitude in this matter is incomprehensible to me.' Now, what did you mean by that?—or rather, why did you make use of that particular phrase in the sense you did? What occasioned it?"
Doctor Westbrook frowned as at a disagreeable memory.
"The favor with which he looked upon De Sanchez's addresses to my sister," he replied.
"De Sanchez was a suitor for your sister's hand?"
"He was."
"What was incomprehensible in the fact that your father favored him?"