“And what do you know now, if you please?”
“That he has been cheating and bullying and blackmailing and corrupting them.”
“And if you had known this before what would you have told them to do, as you say?”
“Thrash him within an inch of his life.”
“You admit that?”
“I do, sir.”
The Governor turns to the High Bailiff and says:
“Is it necessary to go further? The man denies that he took part in the actual assault, but no evidence could be more corroborative of the captain’s story.”
The High Bailiff appears to assent, and the advocate for the defence, who had intended to call the other prisoners, signifies by a gesture that he thinks it is hopeless to do so now.