"He had lucid intervals, then."
"Yes, sir."
"Was that the reason why, the next day after the alleged assignment, you wrote him a letter, urging him to make the assignment, and offering him a royalty for the use of his patents?"
"I never wrote any such letter, sir. I never sent him any such letter, sir."
"You sent him to the asylum, did you?"
"I co-operated with others, sir, and paid the bills," said Mr. Belcher, with emphasis.
"Did you ever visit the asylum when he was there?"
"I did, sir."
"Did you apply to the superintendent for liberty to secure his signature to a paper?"
"I do not remember that I did. It would have been an unnatural thing for me to do. If I did, it was a paper on some subordinate affair. It was some years ago, and the details of the visit did not impress themselves upon my memory."