Mr. Chesterton: We have been told in evidence that a ring was put in the crypt.
Witness: Yes?
Mr. Chesterton: Does that surprise you?
Witness: Not in the least.
Mr. Chesterton: Why?
Witness: Because I put it there.
Mr. Chesterton: What was your object in pursuing that course?
Witness: This was the ring, I may say, that I had seen pass from Mr. Grewgious to Drood, of the existence of which, I may perhaps point out, it is obvious from the study of the Official Records, Jasper knew nothing at all; and acting under instructions from Mr. Grewgious, who had received the ring back from Drood, I obtained with the assistance of my friend Durdles access to the Sapsea vault, and therein I placed the ring. My object in doing that was, that subsequently, when Mr. Grewgious offered a reward for the discovery of the ring, the prisoner could be entrapped into a visit to the vault.
Mr. Chesterton: I take it, Mr. Grewgious would plaster Cloisterham with the description of the ring as believed to be on the person of Edwin Drood?
Witness: That is what he did.