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"Mr Hurst lives alone, I believe?" said Mr Loraan; but the barrister explained: "I mean that I believe he is unmarried?"

"Well, and what about it?" the witness de you a question"

"I know that," said the witness viciously; "and I say that you've no business tolady when there's a cook-housekeeper and a kitchenh to be my father----"

Here his lordship flattened his eyelids with startling effect, and Mr Loram interrupted: "I make no insinuations I merely ask, Is your employer, Mr Hurst, an unmarried man, or is he not?"

"I never asked him," said the witness sulkily

"Please answer my question--yes or no?"

"How can I answer your question? He may be unmarried or he may not How do I know? I'aze at the witness, and in the ensuing silence a plaintive voice came from the bench: "Is the point material?"

"Certainly, my lord," replied Mr Lora Mr Hurst, perhaps you had better put the question to hie subsided into his normal state of coma he turned to the triu re on the twenty-third of Noveham called at our house"

"How did you knoas Mr John Bellingham?"

"I didn't; but he said he was, and I supposed he knew"

"At what time did he arrive?"

"At twenty "

"What happened then?"

"I told him that Mr Hurst had not come home yet, and he said he would wait for him in the study and write some letters; so I showed him into the study and shut the door"

"What happened next?"

"Nothing Then Mr Hurst came home at his usual time--a quarter to six--and let hih into the study, where I supposed Mr Bellingham still was, so I took no notice, but laid the table for two At six o'clock Mr Hurst ca-room--he has tea in the City and dines at six--and when he saw the table laid for two he asked the reason I said I thought Mr Bellinghaham!' says he 'I didn't knoas here Why didn't you tell ht he ith you, sir,' I said 'I showed him into the study,' I said 'Well, he wasn't there when I came in,' he said, 'and he isn't there now,' he said 'Perhaps he has gone to wait in the drawing-roo-rooht Mr Bellinghaone away; but I told hi all the tihahter ith hihaham, and then he was more surprised than ever I said we had better search the house to make sure whether he was there or not, and Mr Hurst said he would come with me; so ent all over the house and looked in all the roohaot very nervous and upset, and when he had just snatched a little dinner he ran off to catch the six-thirty train up to town"