'You gave perfect satisfaction?'
'Oh yes, sir, for I stayed on months after the child was stolen, and indeed, I may say, I was married from the Hall.'
'Was a hue and cry raised?'
'Yes, and rewards offered, but all to no purpose.'
'The mystery remained a mystery?'
'That's it, sir.'
'And about the birth-marks?'
'They were there on the infant I nursed, sir, and I found them on the girl Lotty whom we picked up in the North Sea.'
'Is it not possible'—this from the judge—'that the marks on Lotty Lee's side may only be of some fancied resemblance to those on the infant child and heir to Broxley estates?'
'There is no fancy about it, my lord; they are the same. I swear to that.'