Counsel.--"You say his manner was a good deal excited; pray, what do you mean by that expression?"
Witness.--"I mean, hurried, hasty, impatient, agitated. Once he fell into a reverie, which lasted two or three minutes."
Counsel.--"Will you have the goodness to state, Mr. Fleming, with as much precision as possible, at what hour the prisoner visited you?"
"Silence!" cried the judge, in a voice of thunder. "What is all that noise at the door?"
"A man will force his way in, my lord;" said one of the officers, from the other end of the court; "and there is not a bit of room."
"Take him into custody," cried the judge.
"He says, he wishes to give evidence for the prisoner, my lord," shouted the officer; the noise and confusion still continuing.
"He will be called if he is wanted," said the judge. "Take him into custody, if he continues disorderly."
The volunteer witness apparently did so; for there was a momentary scuffle at the door, and then some one was removed by the officers.
The question of the counsel was then repeated to Mr. Fleming; and he replied, "To a minute I cannot exactly say; but it must have been somewhere between five and a quarter past; for the clock upon my library table struck the quarter while he was sitting with me."