"More than once?"
"I don't know."
"Did you make him steal?"
"I made him take what belonged to us."
"Did you make him steal, I say!"
"Call it what you like!" shouted the angered and excited old man. He had become so annoyed and harassed by this persistent, searching cross-examination that he was growing reckless and telling the truth in spite of himself. Besides, it seemed to him that Goodlaw must know all about Ralph's life with him, and he dared not go far astray in his answers.
But the lawyer knew only what Craft himself was disclosing. He based each question on the answers that had preceded it, long practice having enabled him to estimate closely what was lying in the mind of the witness.
"And so," continued Goodlaw, "when you returned from one of your trips into the country you found that the boy had disappeared?"
"He had."
"Were you surprised at that?"