"And it was no uncommon thing for them to say things to you about your master, eh?"
"Sometimes they didn't care what they said."
"Quite so," commented Counsel drily. "They indulged in threats?"
"Not all of them," replied Hill, who at length saw where the cross-examination was tending.
"I do not suggest that all of them did—only that the more violent of them did so."
"Quite so, sir."
"So we may take it that the quarrel between your late master and Miss Fanning was not the only quarrel of the kind which came under your notice?"
"There were not many others," said Hill.
"It was not the only one?" persisted Counsel.
"No, sir."