Witness.—“I think so. I should enjoy, for instance, the society of a beardless, briefless, barrister quite as much as that of the most accomplished Q. C.” (Loud laughter).
Mr. Gill.—“I hope the former, whom I represent in large numbers, will appreciate the compliment.” (More laughter). “These youths were much inferior to you in station?”
Witness.—“I never enquired, nor did I care, what station they occupied. I found them, for the most part, bright and entertaining. I found their conversation a change. It acted as a kind of mental tonic.”
Mr. Gill.—“You saw nothing peculiar or suggestive in the arrangement of Taylor’s rooms?”
Witness.—“I cannot say that I did. They were Bohemian. That is all. I have seen stranger rooms.”
Mr. Gill.—“You never suspected the relations that might exist between Taylor and his young friends?”
Witness.—“I had no need to suspect anything. Taylor’s relations with his friends appeared to me to be quite normal.”
Mr. Gill.—“You have attended to the evidence of the witness Mavor?”
Witness.—“I have.”
Mr. Gill.—“Is it true or false?”