"Raise your right hand!—Do you swear to speak without hatred or fear, to tell the whole truth? Say, 'I swear it.'"
"I swear it!" repeated the witness.
"Put down your hand. Give your evidence!"
Victor shuffled uneasily up against the railing and turned to the jury.
"On April 3d," he began, "a man and woman came to the hotel——"
"What time was it?" interrupted the President.
"It was a short time after lunch."
"Go on!"
"They had a trunk and a bag. I took them up to Room 24 on the top floor, and the man said, as he went into the room, 'Not a palace, is it?' And the woman said, 'Oh, what does it matter—this room or another one!' to which the man replied, 'Well, I don't suppose we will be here long.' Then they asked me for absinthe and cigarettes which I got for them, and the man asked me to leave the bottle."
"Did they drink much?" interrupted the President.