'That is true.'
If Halliday Brothers becomes bankrupt, your claim would rank with those of the other creditors?'
'I suppose so.'
'In which case you would get little or nothing of the £40,000. But if the prisoner could be persuaded to sell his chance of succession before the declaration of bankruptcy, your client could raise money on that succession out of which you could be paid in full, if he consented?'
'Yes, if he consented.'
'You have already made three several attempts to make him sell, have you not?'
'Acting by my client's instructions.'
'The first time, when he refused, you threatened revenge, did you not?'
'I did not.'
'You then clapped him in a debtors' prison on a trumped-up charge of debt?'