'None.'
Mr. Caterham sat down. Serjeant Cosins stood up.
'You might be the better by the prisoner's death. You are not however in any way concerned with the case except as an accidental observer?'
'Not in any way.'
'And you are not in any way acquainted with the witnesses who are chiefly concerned?'
'Not at all.'
Mr. Probus sat down.
Mr. Caterham called again, the Rev. Dr. Samuel Carstairs.
'My Lud,' he began, 'I must ask that none of the witnesses in this case be allowed to leave the court without your Ludship's permission.'
The Bishop entered the box, but with much less assurance than he had previously assumed. And the cross-examination began.