erally take them out for occasions.

_Q._ Did you see him go out about that time?

_A._ I did.

_Q._ Did you yourself go out soon after that?

_A._ Yes I did, and my wife.

_Q._ About what time did you return home that evening?

_A._ About eleven o'clock, within a few minutes of eleven.

_Q._ Was your master at home when you returned or not?

_A._ He was not at home.

_Q._ Did he come home afterwards?

_A._ Yes.

_Q._ About what time?

_A._ I had not been at home, I suppose five minutes, before my master
came home.

_Q._ That would be a few minutes before or after eleven?

_A._ Yes.

_Q._ Did he sleep at home that night.

_A._ Yes.

_Q._ What means have you of knowing that?

_A._ The means I have were these; after I came home we were down in the
kitchen taking our supper, my master was in the drawing-room before we
had got to bed, I heard him going up stairs to his bed-room, he passed
my room door; that was not above half past eleven.

_Q._ Did he breakfast at home the next morning, or not.

_A._ No, he did not.

_Q._ Did you see him the next morning early?

_A._ No.

_Q._ About what time did you see him the next day?

_A._ About three o'clock; I cannot speak to a minute or two.

_Q._ Did you hear or see him go out?

_A._ I did not.

_Q._ You saw him about three o'clock on the Monday?

_A._ Yes, I did.

_Q._ Who made his bed?

_A._ My wife.

_Cross-examined by Mr. Gurney._

_Q._ Did you let him in?

_A._ Yes.

_Q._ You opened the door to him?

_A._ Yes.

_Q._ At a little after eleven, that night?

_A._ Yes, thereabouts, it might be a little before, or a little after.

_Q._ He gave a good loud knock at the door, in his usual way?

_A._ He rapped as usual.

_Q._ And his usual rap was a loud one?

_A._ Not over loud.

_Q._ Not very gentle?

_A._ Between.

_Q._ Between loud and gentle?

_A._ Yes.

_Q._ And he slept at home that night?

_A._ I cannot say that he slept, he went to his bed-room, and the bed
when I went in the morning looked as if he had slept in it.

_Q._ Did you see him in bed the next morning?

_A._ No, I did not, I heard him go into the bed room.

_Q._ You did not see him the next day till three o'clock?

_A._ No.

_Q._ Did you write that letter to Lord Yarmouth? (_shewing a letter to
the witness._)

_A._ I did.

_Q._ Of your own head?

_A._ Yes.

_Q._ No body furnished you with any draught to write from?

_A._ No.