“Was you ever blind, sir?”
“No, sir.”
“Did you marry a widow, sir?”
“No, sir.”
Another lapse of silence.
“Did I understand you to say, sir, that you had a wife and six children living in New York, and had never seen one of them?”
“Yes, sir; I so stated it.”
Another and a longer pause of silence. Then the interrogator again inquired,—
“How can it be, sir, that you never saw one of them?”
“Why,” was the response, “one of them was born after I left.”