The examination of John Doe then began.
“How long have you known the prisoner?”
“Various lengths. I have known her from 2 feet 3 inches long to 5 feet 7½ inches long, as she is now. But even now she is sometimes pretty short with me. I’ve known her so long, in short, that the longer I knew her the more I got to long after her.”
“Well, I don’t want to know anything about long after; I mean, when did you first come across her?”
“I cross her! I never crossed her in my life. She had her own way as long as I knew her; it was she that was cross with me.”
A TROUBLESOME TIME.
“But I want to know the length of your acquaintance?”
“Some of my acquaintances are long and some short.”
“How shall I put it? Tell me, once for all, when you first met her.”
“When I first met her? I met her when I least expected it.”