"Can you point them out by name?"
"The girl is my maid Jer ... Betty Jacks ... that man is William, Major Allen's groom ... and that other...."
"You had better stop there," interrupted the self-styled captain, "or you may chance to say more than you know."
"You had better be silent, I promise you," said the magistrate. "Pray, ma'am, do you know that person?... Did you ever see him before?"
"Yes, I have seen him before," replied Mrs. Barnaby, who was pale in spite of her rouge; for the recollection of all the affectionate intimacy she had witnessed between this man and her affianced Major turned her very sick, and it was quite as much as she could do to articulate.
"I should be sorry, ma'am, to trouble you with any unnecessary questions," said the magistrate; "but I must beg you to tell me, if you please, where it is you have seen him, and what he is called?"
"I saw him in the Mall at Clifton, sir," ... replied Mrs. Barnaby.
"And many an honest man besides me may have been seen in the Mall at Clifton," said the soi-disant Captain Maintry laughing.
"And you have never seen him anywhere else, ma'am?"
"No, sir, never."