'No,' faltered Aubrey.
'But you live near him?'
'We are friends,' said Aubrey, with sudden firmness and precision; and from the utterance of that emphatic are, his spirit returned.
'Did you often see him?'
'On most Sundays, after church.'
'Did you ever hear him say he had any thoughts of the means of leaving the mill privately?'
'Something like it,' said Aubrey, turning very red.
'Can you tell me the words?'
'He said if things went on, that I was not to be surprised if I heard non est inventus,' said Aubrey, speaking as if rapidity would conceal the meaning of the words, but taken aback by being made to repeat and translate them to the jury.
'And did he mention any way of escaping?'