"Was there any one else with Lord Hadley?" asked the coroner. "That I can't just say," answered Connor. "There was nobody close to him, or I should have seen them both at once, and there might be somebody not far off, as indeed there was; but you see, your worship, I leaned back upon the turf, for I didn't want to be disturbed in my meditations." "Ah!" said the coroner. "Go on, my man." "Well, a minute after--it might be two minutes, perhaps, for I won't be particular as to that--I heard two men quarrelling, and looking up to the sky, I saw them clear enough." "What! in the sky?" said the coroner. "No, agin it," replied the witness; "for both their feet were upon the ground at that time, but just at the edge of the cliff, where there's a bit of a rail. They were hitting each other about, and being a peaceable man anyhow, having had enough of rows in my own country--that's Ireland, your worship--I sat quite still, and then the one gave the other a great knock, and away he went back over the railing, and so I walked quietly home, and saw no more." "Be so good as to describe the man who struck the other, and knocked him over the cliff," said the coroner. "Why, that's mighty difficult to do," answered Daniel Connor, "seeing that they were fifty yards off and more, and looked just like two black shadows on the wall." "Did you ever see him before?" demanded the crown officer, somewhat impatiently. "Maybe I have," answered the witness; "but I should not just like to say for certain." "But you had no doubt in the case of Lord Hadley," rejoined the coroner. "That was natural like," answered Daniel Connor; "for he came within ten yards of me, and t'other was a good bit farther off when I saw him." "Let me try, Mr. Coroner," said the foreman of the jury. "Was he a tall man or a short man, witness?" "Oh! it was a tall man he was," replied Connor; "I dare say an inch taller than I am, and I'm no bantam." "Did you ever see that gentleman before?" continued the foreman, pointing out Dudley. "I think I have, your honour," answered the witness. "Was he the man you saw strike Lord Hadley on the cliff?" demanded the coroner, in a stern tone. "I shouldn't just like to swear," answered Daniel Connor; "but he's not unlike him, any how."