“You speak generally. Was there any especial animosity?”
“My brother bought a horse that Archfield was after.”
“Was there any dispute over it?”
“Not that I know of.”
“Can you give an instance of displeasure manifested by the prisoner at the deceased?”
“I have seen him look black when my brother held a gate open for his wife.”
“Then there were gallant attentions towards Mrs. Archfield?”
Charles’s face flushed, and he made a step forward, but Robert gruffly answered: “No more than civility; but he had got Frenchified manners, and liked to tease Archfield.”
“Did they ever come to high words before you?”
“No. They knew better.”