Mr. Walters: As a matter of fact, you were not a stranger. Did you meet Mr. Jasper?
Witness: I made an excuse, and I went up and asked him if he could tell me anything as to the respectability of the Tope family.
Mr. Walters: So that you bearded the lion in his den. Did he recognise you?
Witness: No; he did not know the mouse.
Mr. Walters: There are other ways of detecting people than by appearance. Jasper is a musician with a very delicate ear. What about your voice?
Witness: Mr. Jasper had only heard it once, and that was months ago, and, besides, I can change it (changing her voice)—change the tone of my voice, and speak like a man.
Mr. Walters: You can disguise it, Miss Landless, so that people would really think it was a man’s voice?
Witness: Yes.
Mr. Walters: Tell us what you discovered as to Mr. Jasper’s movements at this time.
Witness: He absented himself from the Cathedral every now and then, and made periodical disappearances.