"I object!" shouted Attorney O'Shaughnessey. "On what grounds?" asked Judge Brentano. "It isn't relevant to the issue," replied Mr. O'Shaughnessey. "If this case had been tried on merely relevant issues it would have been finished in twenty minutes," retorted the court. "Did you go to the bathroom on the fifth floor of the hotel?" "Yes." "What did you see?" "The transom of the bathroom had been taken out and the door opened from the inside. On the floor lay a girl. One knee was tied and one foot fastened to the foot of the bathtub. Both hands were tied." "Were they slip knots?" "No. Hard knots. The feet were tied with cords and the knee with a stocking." "What was her condition?" "She was not unconscious. The pupils of the eyes were widely dilated. I asked her who her friends were and she asked me to send for Captain O'Brien." "What did she say?" "She was crying, as hysterical people do. She kept saying, 'They threw pepper in my eyes.'" "'I can't drink any more wine.' She also said she was a friend of Mr. O'Donnell." "What did you do?" "I examined to see if she had been attacked, and found there were no such indications. I cut her loose and found she wasn't in a bad way. Her pulse was good and she did not need medicine." "How about her wounds?" "They were scratches, and not cuts." "When we took her to a room she kept crying and said, 'They cut me! They threw pepper in my eyes and put me in a cab.'" "We object to this form of questioning," said Mr. Short. "The objection is sustained. The court will state why. You are asking questions, Mr. O'Donnell, on matters that nobody can testify to unless you take the stand yourself." "Your honor," shouted the Irish lawyer, "I don't have to take the stand, sir. My good wife will take it." "Very good; then proceed," answered Judge Brentano. "Now, as a matter of fact, did you not see this girl lying there on that bed in a semi-conscious condition, so far from rational that I was compelled to shake her to make her recognize me?" "I saw you shake her. She did not appear to me irrational apart from the hysteria." "What position was Miss Gingles in when you found her in the bathroom?" resumed Mr. Short, again taking the witness. "She was lying on her right side and her body stretched from one end of the bathtub. Her feet were tied to the iron pipe under the stationary bowl. Her hands were tied to the iron foot at the end of the tub." "Did you know Miss Gingles before?" "No. I never saw her before." "Was there anything much the matter with her aside from being hysterical? Did you see the scratches on her arms and body?" "Yes. Those scratches were very superficial. They did not more than penetrate the first skin." "Did you see a liquid in the bathroom?" "Yes. I thought it was wine. Also there was a little bottle of laudanum." "Now, if this girl had taken laudanum, what would have been the condition of the pupils of her eyes?" "They would have been very much contracted."