Even the jury laughed at this, and yet, after all, Mrs. Sloane was right—or nearly so!
“That is curious. How did it resemble a fountain?”
“Perhaps I should have said a fountain in moonlight white, and misty, and—and flowing.”
“And yet, this curious-shaped object threw the axe at you, didn’t it?”
There was an objection to the form of this question, but the court overruled it.
“I did not say it threw the axe. I did not see it thrown. I felt it.”
“Did you know the first mate, Singleton, before you met on the Ella?”
“Yes, sir.”
“Where?”
“We were on the same vessel two years ago, the American, for Bermuda.”