Brent turned and whispered first to Neale and Cornwaleys, then to his sister, and finally, turning again toward the prisoner, he said,—
"'Twill serve no good turn to press that question."
"I stand upon my rights."
"Is it not enough that there be a dozen here who are convinced of thy guilt?"
"I stand upon my rights. I will have the name."
"Then, since thou dost demand the name of him who lodged the charge, 'tis that of Father Fisher, come hither to-day from St. Mary's."
"Father Fisher? The head of the Jesuit colony at St. Inigo's?"
"Ay; yet he makes his charge not as a priest, but a citizen."
"No doubt."
"Sneers, sir, will not help your case, with which we will now go on. What plea are you fain to enter, 'guilty' or 'not guilty'?"