"Then, really and truly, you took the money for your own horse, kept it, and did not give the Doctor a farthing?"
"I gave him nothing but 'Thank you, Doctor, for introducing to me a customer.'"
"Had the Doctor seen the horse before?"
"Frequently, and admired him for the strength of his limbs, and for his proportions."
"Do you remember what he said, when he brought the gentleman into your or his yard?"
"Yes. 'John, I've brought a customer.'"
"You knew what that meant?"
"Of course I did, and I led out the brown horse myself, and paced him, sold him, took the money; the cheque is, I suppose, in court: it was written for me, and I had no idea the horse was sold by anybody but me, to whom it belonged."
At this stage of the proceedings the solicitor for the prosecution intimated that his client wished to withdraw his case.
Serjeant Sharpe said, "He hoped his Honour would direct a verdict for the defendant, his client; and that the world would see what a shameful action it had been. He told the solicitor for the prosecution that he was glad that his client felt ashamed of himself. He could never make him amends for what he had done; that it was disgraceful in the extreme to seek the advice of so good a man, and to treat him in the way he had done. He was quite sure that he would shortly have an increase of his malady, and that even his friend, Mr. Ryecross, would no longer pity him."