"By spending more than my income."
If Askatoon had been proud of its legal talent in the past it had now reason for revising its opinion. Burlingame was frittering away the effect of his inquiry by elaboration of details. What he gained by the main startling fact he lost in the details by which the witness scored. He asked another main question.
"Why did you leave Ireland?"
"To make money."
"You couldn't do it there?"
"They were too many for me over there, so I thought I'd come here," slyly answered Crozier, and with a grave face; at which the solemn scene of a prisoner being tried for his life was shaken by a broad smiling, which in some cases became laughter haughtily suppressed by the court attendant.
"Have you made money here?"
"A little—with expectations."
"What was your income in Ireland?"
"It began with three thousand pounds—"