Mr. Chesterton: And there was a conversation, I think, between you and Deputy, in which you said he was to take you to Durdles’s house when you wished?
Witness: Yes.
Mr. Chesterton: After you installed yourself in the Tope’s lodgings, how did you propose to keep a record of your successes?
Witness: I rather amused myself by opening the cupboard door in my room, and chalking it up as is done in taverns which on occasions I have visited in Ceylon—I mean Norfolk.
Mr. Chesterton: You were brought up as a boy in Norfolk?
Witness: Yes.
Mr. Chesterton: And they keep chalk scores there?
Witness: They used to chalk it up by means of long or short lines.
Mr. Chesterton: Generally according to the date of the week?
Witness: The big lines at the end of the week.