"Russell. 'Assuming the letters to be genuine, does it not even now occur to your mind how it could be effectively met?'
"Pigott. 'No.'
"Pigott now looked like a man, after the sixth round in a prize fight, who had been knocked down in every round. But Russell showed him no mercy. I shall take another extract.
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"Russell. 'Whatever the charges in "Parnellism and Crime," including the letters, were, did you believe them to be true or not?'
"Pigott. 'How can I say that when I say I do not know what the charges were? I say I do not recollect that letter to the archbishop at all, or any of the circumstances it refers to.'
"Russell. 'First of all you knew this: that you procured and paid for a number of letters?'
"Pigott. 'Yes.'
"Russell. 'Which, if genuine, you have already told me, would gravely implicate the parties from whom these were supposed to come.'
"Pigott. 'Yes, gravely implicate.'