"What he had told me."
"Was his will there?"
"I have reason to believe so."
"Did you believe so on Saturday, while you were in the room with Miss Lund?"
"I did not give the matter any thought at that time." Floyd spoke as though the spirit burned hot within him. "And I will add——"
"Nothing," said Badger. But the judge looked up.
"This is a court, not a court-martial," he said, quietly, a pale, studious man. "The witness has a right to modify his answers."
"I have only this to say," continued Floyd, "to hasten as much as possible this preposterous trial, that I indorse every word of Miss Lund's testimony, and accept it and proffer it as my own upon the points which it covers."
"We prefer——" But the district attorney interrupted his assistant. "Are you aware, Mr. Floyd, of the gravity of the position in which Miss Lund's testimony involves you? Sole opportunity is almost the major head among those which the government is required to prove."
"I accept it in toto, subject to the privilege of volunteering a statement if my examination is incomplete or misleading."