"Yes, sir." This was said emphatically.
"Didn't he say that he sympathized with Dr. Hyndman?"
"That's what I told you."
"No, sir, it is not what you told me. Didn't Floyd say he sympathized with Dr. Hyndman as opposed to the bomb-throwing anarchists?"
"I don't remember that he did."
"Didn't he say that he sympathized with Dr. Hyndman's objects, but not his methods?"
"I don't remember anything about that."
"Then you didn't carry away a very clear idea of the conversation, did you?"
"I think I did," the witness replied with positiveness. Then the cross-examiner dismissed him, satisfied to have made it apparent that fine distinctions would pass through Mr. Carberry's mind like beach sand through a sieve. The redirect examination went over the same ground, and Badger placed a Mr. Lovejoy on the stand.
"You are treasurer of the Beacon company, are you not?"