Trial of John Jasper, lay precentor of Cloisterham Cathedral in the County of Kent, for the murder of Edwin Drood, engineer

by England) Dickens Fellowship (London

Witness: I did.

Mr. Chesterton: I need not trouble you with the conversation, but that boy agreed to conduct you to Tope’s?

Witness: Yes.

Mr. Chesterton: Now he brought you to a place from which the arched passage was visible?

Witness: Yes.

Mr. Chesterton: And you said, “That’s Tope’s”?

Witness: Yes.

Mr. Chesterton: And he answered, “Yer lie; it ain’t. That’s Jarsper’s.” Is that so?

Witness: Yes.

Mr. Chesterton: And you said, “Indeed?” And you gave a “second look, of some interest.” What was the meaning of that?