“I was.”
“How long had you lived there?”
“About four years, I believe, or somewhere thereabouts.”
Here Loudon handed the judge a paper, which the judge unfolded and laid before him on the bench.
“Was that village a large or a small one?”
“Not very large—perhaps fifty houses.”
“You knew all these houses well, I presume?”
“I did.”
“Was the house in which Mr. Henshaw died, one story or two?”
“Two, I believe.”