This question, as by previous arrangement between attorney and witness, opened up the way for a narration of facts, and old Simon, clearing his throat, leaned across the railing of the witness-box and began. He related in detail, and with much dramatic effect, the scenes at the accident, his rescue of the boy, his effort at the time to find some one to whom he belonged, and the ride into the city afterward. He corroborated conductor Merrick's story of the meeting on the train which carried the rescued passengers, and related the conversation which passed between them, as nearly as he could remember it. He told of his attempts to find the child's friends during the few days that followed, then of the long and desperate illness from which he suffered as a result of his exertion and exposure on the night of the accident. From that point, he went on with an account of his continued care for the child, of his incessant search for clews to the lad's identity, of his final success, of Ralph's unaccountable disappearance, and of his own regret and disappointment thereat. He said that the lad had grown into his affections to so great an extent, and his sympathy for the child's parents was such, that he could not let him go in that way, and so he started out to find him. He told how he traced him from one point to another, until he was taken up by the circus wagon, how the scent was then lost, and how the boy's whereabouts remained a mystery to him, until the happy discovery at the tent in Scranton. "Well," said Sharpman, "when you had found the boy, what did you do?" "I went, the very next day," was the reply, "to Robert Burnham to tell him that his son was living." "What conversation did you have with him?" "I object," interposed Goodlaw, "to evidence of any alleged conversation between this witness and Robert Burnham. Counsel should know better than to ask for it." "The question is not a proper one," said the judge. "Well," continued Sharpman, "as a result of that meeting what were you to do?" "I was to bring his son to him the following day." "Did you bring him?" "I did not." "Why not?" "Mr. Burnham died that night." "What did you do then?" "I went to you for advice." "In pursuance of that advice, did you have an interview with the boy Ralph?" "I did." "Where?" "At your office." "Did you explain to him the facts concerning his parentage and history?" "They were explained to him." "What did he say he wished you to do for him?" Goodlaw interrupted again, to object to the testimony offered as incompetent and thereupon ensued an argument between counsel, which was cut short by the judge ordering the testimony to be excluded, and directing a bill of exceptions to be sealed for the plaintiff. The hour for the noon recess had now come, and court was adjourned to meet again at two o'clock. When the afternoon session was called, Sharpman announced that he was through with the direct examination of Craft.