larly to get up?

_A._ I was up.

_Q._ What had you to do with the Ship Inn, that because a man is
knocking at the Ship Inn door you light candles at your house and carry
over?

_A._ I went across to see who the gentleman was.

_Q._ Merely curiosity?

_A._ Mere curiosity.

_Q._ And from the same spirit of curiosity you lit two candles and
brought them over to the Ship Inn?

_A._ I told a person to bring them over.

_Q._ Was it very beautiful moonlight that night?

_A._ No it was not moonlight.

_Q._ Was there any moon that night; had there been that night at all?

_A._ I did not pay that attention to the night to say.

_Q._ It was beautifully starlight I suppose.

_A._ I do not know, I did not pay that attention.

_Q._ Was it a foggy night?

_A._ That I did not look after.

_Q._ You will see by the Almanack it was new moon the night before; you
did not observe whether it was moonlight, starlight, or foggy?

_A._ No.

_Q._ You found he had got into the passage of the house when you got the
candles?

_A._ Yes.

_Q._ Who let him in?

_A._ The boots.

_Q._ Did you see him?

_A._ Yes in the passage.

_Q._ How long did you converse with him about the news that you say he
said was greater than had ever been heard of for these twenty years from
France? All that passed in the passage?

_A._ Yes.

_Q._ How long a time might you be in the passage?

_A._ Not longer than five minutes before I went to call Mr. Wright.

_Q._ Do you mean you were with him only five minutes before you went up
stairs to call Mr. Wright, or altogether?

_A._ Altogether I suppose about that, I cannot speak to a minute; but he
was in great haste to get away.

_Q._ How long do you think this person was altogether at Mr. Wright's?

_A._ I should think not more than twenty minutes.

_Q._ Where were the candles all this time you were in the passage with
him?

_A._ I had them in my hand.

_Q._ What did you do with them when you went up to Mr. Wright?

_A._ I left them with him in the parlour; boots got me a candle.

_Q._ You held the candles in your own hand while you remained in the
passage?

_A._ Yes, while the boots unlocked the parlour door, and I went and put
them on the table.

_Q._ Before you went up stairs?

_A._ Yes.

_Q._ Had the person who you say was this gentleman gone into the parlour
before you went up stairs?

_A._ Yes he had.

_Q._ I take for granted when you came down stairs and Mr. Wr