“I should like to say—”
But the Captain stopped him.
“You will be heard shortly. First of all we must hear Pledge’s witness.”
“Certainly. I told Webster to call up at half-past four. He doesn’t know what for. You’d better have him in. I’ll go and fetch him.”
“No,” said the Captain. “Aspinall, will you ask him to come in?”
Chapter Twenty Nine.
How Templeton turns a corner.
Aspinall was not absent three minutes altogether, but the interval seemed interminable.