‘Then did you divert it from that purpose?’
‘I thought the man was dead.’
‘What man?’
‘Professor Muhlwasser.’
‘The creditor?’
‘Yes.’
Mr. Calderwood objected to these questions as irrelevant; but the prisoner’s counsel declared them to be essential, and the judge let him go on to extract from Dolores that the payment was intended for an expensive illustrated work on natural history, which was to be published in Germany. Her father had promised to take two copies of it if it were completed; but being doubtful whether this would ever be the case, he had preferred leaving a draft with her to letting the account be discharged by his brother, and he had reckoned that seven pounds would cover the expense.
‘You say you supposed the author was dead. What reason had you for thinking so?’
‘He told me; Mr. Flinders did.’
‘Had Mr. Mohun sanctioned your applying this sum to any other purpose than that specified?’