"On what did you base your opinion?"
"On several circumstances. The nurse with whom he was sitting was killed outright; it would seem to have been impossible for any one occupying that seat to have escaped instant death, since the other car struck and rested at just that point. Again, there were but two children on the train. It took it for granted that the old man and child whom I saw together after the accident were the same ones whom I had seen together before it occurred."
"Did you tell Mr. Burnham of seeing this old man and child after the accident?"
"I did; yes, sir."
"Did you not say to him positively, at that time, that they were the same persons who were sitting together across the aisle from him before the crash came?"
"It may be that I did."
"And did you not assure him that the child who went to the city, on the train that night after the accident was not his son?"
"I may have done so. I felt quite positive of it at that time."
"Has your opinion in that matter changed since then?"
"Not as to the facts; no, sir; but I feel that I may have taken too much for granted at that time, and have given Mr. Burnham a wrong impression."