WITNESS: Both became flushed and excited. MR. WALTERS: Was it very usual with your brother? WITNESS: No. MR. WALTERS: Yet a small quantity had this effect on him. Did you suspect anything of the wine? WITNESS: I am morally certain the wine was drugged. MR. WALTERS: I believe after that there was to be a little patching up? WITNESS: That was owing to Canon Crisparkle. They were all to meet and shake hands. MR. WALTERS: Was it to be a large party, or confined to themselves? WITNESS: Only my brother and Edwin Drood and John Jasper, who had invited them to his house. MR. WALTERS: That was on the Christmas Eve? WITNESS: Yes. MR. WALTERS: Did you know anything about your brother’s plans for the next day? WITNESS: He had planned to go on a walking tour. MR. WALTERS: You knew all about it? WITNESS: Yes. MR. WALTERS: All arranged? WITNESS: Yes. MR. WALTERS: No secret? WITNESS: No. MR. WALTERS: And to the best of your knowledge, he started on that tour next morning? WITNESS: Yes. MR. WALTERS: Now, to get back to the party: you saw your brother just before he went? WITNESS: Yes. MR. WALTERS: Was he happy and jolly going to the party? WITNESS: No. He was ready to shake hands with Edwin Drood, but he had a strange dread of the gatehouse. MR. WALTERS: He did not object to going? WITNESS: No; because he wanted to shake hands with Edwin Drood. MR. WALTERS: Then the main object of his going was, not to enjoy himself, but to shake hands with Edwin Drood? WITNESS: Yes. MR. WALTERS: And you think that was practically the only motive? WITNESS: Yes. MR. WALTERS: We are told that Neville was fetched back after starting on his journey. WITNESS: Yes. MR. WALTERS: Was it a surprise he was fetched back after Drood’s extraordinary disappearance was mentioned? WITNESS: It was. MR. WALTERS: But when you heard who had fetched him back, was that a surprise? WITNESS: No; because Jasper had always been his enemy from the first. MR. WALTERS: You thought he had cast suspicion on him? WITNESS: Jasper had hinted in Cloisterham to many people that if anything ever happened to his nephew my brother would be responsible for it. MR. WALTERS: And so you knew that your brother was under deep suspicion when brought back to Cloisterham? WITNESS: Yes. MR. WALTERS: Did you take that very much to heart? WITNESS: I did, indeed, seeing it concerned the one I loved best in the world. MR. WALTERS: There were two persons you wanted to protect? WITNESS: Yes. MR. WALTERS: Who were they? WITNESS: My brother, and Rosa Bud. MR. WALTERS: You had a double motive, and you thought the danger came from one and the same man? WITNESS: I certainly did. MR. WALTERS: Who was that? WITNESS: John Jasper. MR. WALTERS: What did your brother do after all this? WITNESS: He was so sad and unhappy that he left Cloisterham, and took lodgings in London. MR. WALTERS: You went with him? WITNESS: No, I stopped there to live it down.