"Iss, it was."
"Did you ever lose sight of me?"
"Iss; once or twice."
"Then how can you be sure that I, the man you captured, was the same man you say you saw showing the light on the headland?"
At this the man looked confused, and then I wished that I had tried to get a lawyer to defend me, for I saw how much better he could have done it than I could defend myself. For my mind was in a very confused state all the while, so confused that my remembrance of it now is by no means clear. Indeed, I know I have described my trial with anything but clearness as to the order of events, although I have set down, truthfully, the general facts of the whole business.
I do remember, however, that Admiral Trefry asked the Preventive men some questions upon this very point which upset them very considerably; and I also remember, seeing that for the moment things looked a little brighter for me, I said to the Admiral that I was a good many miles from the Lizard at the very time these men had declared they were pursuing me.
"Where were you, then?" asked the Admiral.
"I was in St. Eve."
"Where there?"