“You did not so testify upon your preliminary examination,” said the judge.
“No, your Honor, I did not think it necessary.”
“Why do you now? Do you bear him ill will?”
“No.”
“Have any promises been made you, if the prisoner should be found guilty?”
The witness hesitated, and then said: “No, your Honor.”
“Take the witness,” said the prosecutor to Eliot.
Pence wondered where he was to be taken. He hoped that it was not to be back to his cell. “However,” he thought, “I am not to go yet.”
“Where were you just brought from?” asked Eliot.
“A cell in the prison.”