Langford was most unsatisfactory under cross-examination. He never contradicted himself, and was a trifle contemptuous of any effort to tangle him up in threads of his own weaving. The little man touched Small on the arm and whispered to him.
“Mr. Langford,” said Small, in a weighty voice, “you travel a great deal, I believe?”
“I do.”
“For pleasure, maybe?” with a mysterious inflection.
“Partly.”
“Business as well?”
“Business as well.”
“Just prior to the arrest of the defendant,” insinuatingly, “you were away?”
“How long prior do you mean?”
“Say a week.”