WITNESS: Yes; I saw her behind a pillar, shaking her fist at him. MR. WALTERS: You think she knew something about him? WITNESS: Yes; that she knew more about his character than anybody else suspected. MR. WALTERS: May I take it that the results of your investigations led you to the conclusions about John Jasper—that they increased your suspicions? WITNESS: I had my suspicions from the first. MR. WALTERS: Did you keep a record of your successes at the time? WITNESS: Yes. MR. WALTERS: How? WITNESS: In chalk marks. MR. WALTERS: Why in chalk marks? WITNESS: I like the old tavern way of keeping scores. You may make a little mark, and nobody but the scorer knows what it means: a small mark for a small success, and a big mark for a big one. MR. WALTERS: Was another reason that you did not wish your woman’s handwriting to be discovered? WITNESS: That would never have done. MR. WALTERS: Did you adopt any device to bring Jasper into your presence, or not? WITNESS: Yes; Mr. Grewgious had told me that he had given a ring to Edwin Drood. MR. WALTERS: And did you use that ring in any way? WITNESS: Yes; it was this ring that I used to lure him. MR. WALTERS: And then, when you confronted Jasper, you felt that you had sufficient to go upon to accuse him openly of murder? WITNESS: I did. His appearance and agitation were sufficient. MR. WALTERS: And so he was accused of murder; and your motives throughout were disinterested motives for the protection of Rosa Bud and your brother? WITNESS: That is so. MR. WALTERS: You knew Edwin Drood? WITNESS: Yes. MR. WALTERS: Do you think that if he had voluntarily disappeared while all this trouble was going on, he would have communicated with his friends? WITNESS: Yes, he was a kind-hearted lad. MR. WALTERS: You cannot understand him being silent while Rosa was in danger? WITNESS: I am sure he would not be. MR. WALTERS: You think that, wherever he was, he would have spoken, if alive? WITNESS: I do. MR. WALTERS: Thank you, that will do. [HELENA LANDLESS CROSS-EXAMINED.] MR. CHESTERTON: Miss Landless, you say you knew the prisoner to some extent before the disappearance of Edwin Drood? WITNESS: Yes. MR. CHESTERTON: When did you learn that the prisoner was addicted to opium smoking—or have you learned it? WITNESS: Mr. Tope told me of a seizure he had in the Cathedral. MR. CHESTERTON: When was that, approximately? WITNESS: As far as I can remember, about a few weeks after I came to Cloisterham as Dick Datchery. Rosa told me how frightened she was of him after he had had a dream; that he used to go into a peculiar kind of dream, and a film came over his eyes, and then she was more terrified of him than before. MR. CHESTERTON: But you are putting two very different dates. I want to know when you realised he was addicted to opium smoking. WITNESS: It takes a little time to realise anything. We hear this and that, and we put two and two together.