"Mr. Vandyck was with me; the others were strangers."
"That is all, Doctor Heath."
Lawyer O'Meara comes next; his testimony is brief, and impatiently given. He adds nothing new to the collected evidence.
Next comes the man Rooney, and he rehearses the scene at "Old Forty Rods," sparing himself as much as possible.
"We didn't really think he'd go to Doctor Heath's," he says in conclusion. "We all called it a capital joke, and agreed to go out and look him up after a little. He was reeling drunk when he went out, and we all expected to find him floored on the way. After a while, an hour perhaps, we started out, half a dozen of us, with a lantern, and went along the road he had taken; we went almost to Heath's cottage, looking all about the road as we went. When we did not find him, we concluded that he had gone straight home, and that if we staid out longer the laugh would be on us. So we went back, and agreed to say nothing about the matter to Burrill when we should see him."
"How near did you come to Doctor Heath's house?"
"Very near, sir; almost as near as we are now."
"But you were in the opposite direction."
"Just so, sir; we came from the town."
"Did you hear any movements; any sounds of any sort?"