102 THE TRIAL.

“ Did they cross-examine Mr. Richard
Stone?”

“Yes,” said Jonas. ‘ After he had done
telling his story, the judge said that Mr.
Sparr might ask him any questions he
wished to ask; and he asked him how his
window was fastened, and he said, by a nail
put into a hole over the top of it. ‘Then he
asked him if he was positively sure that he
put the nail into that window the morning
before he went away, and he said he was;
he was particular to fasten that closet win-
dow, for all his wife’s silver spoons were in
that closet.

‘Then Mr. Richard Stone stepped down
from the stand, and walked away.”

‘“‘T wish they had let him tell what Cap-
tain James said,” said Rollo.

“You will hear presently,’ said Jonas,
“for Captain James was the next witness
called. You see it is a great deal better to
have him come himself upon the stand, and
tell his own story there, for then they get it
more direct, and they also can question him ~
very closely about it, if it is necessary. So
Captain James took his place upon the stand,