"You are a friend of the court," Judge Nelson told him. "An amicus curiae."
"You make me happy. Please go on; I have no desire to put stop to what you do in this place."
"From what person did you get this machine that you gave to these persons for one hundred pesos?" I asked.
Gglafrr immediately began barking and snarling and yelping at my witness. The drygoods importer looked startled, and Judge Nelson banged with his gavel.
"That's enough of that! There'll be nothing spoken in this court but English, except through an interpreter!"
"Yow! I am sad that what I did was not right," the z'Srauff Ambassador replied contritely. "But my person here has not as part of his knowledge that you will make him say what may put him in trouble."
Nelson nodded in agreement.
"You are right: this person who is here has no need to make answer to any question if it may put him in trouble or make him seem less than he is."
"I will not make answer," the witness said.
"No further questions."