“Have you got that one classified, Mr. Rogers?”
“Let me study a minute, sir.”
“Take as much time as you please. Let me know when you are ready.”
For as much as a minute Rogers pondered, with all eyes and a breathless interest fastened upon him. Then he gave the word: “Ready, sir.”
“Kick!”
The kick that followed was an exact duplicate of the first one.
“Now, then, Mr. Rogers, one of those kicks was an individual kick, not a mutual one. You will now state positively which was the mutual one.”
The witness said, with a crestfallen look:
“I've got to give it up. There ain't any man in the world that could tell t'other from which, sir.”
“Do you still assert that last night's kick was a mutual kick?”