So he asked:
“When did you last see this Mr. Lorton?”
“Just a month ago.”
“Did he say then when you might expect to see him again?”
“Yes.”
“Ah! When was it?”
“He said he was going away, to be gone a couple of months, and that he would come to see me as soon as he came back.”
“Do you know what business this Mr. Lorton was in?”
“Not exactly. He told me once that it was traveling, I think in connection with some patent right.”
“You said something this morning that induced the belief in my mind that you had been inside of a courtroom. Am I right?”