MR. CHESTERTON: And this “general impression on your mind” goes on—“and that, like the children in the game of hot boiled beans and very good butter, he was warm in his search when he saw the tower, and cold when he didn’t see it.” Is not that a definite statement as to the condition of your mind, and not as to your external actions, and does it not assert that you did not know where Tope’s lodgings were? WITNESS: I take it as a blind. JUDGE: I draw the attention of the Court to the fact that the conditions of anybody’s frame of mind have been paid perhaps too little attention to, and if Miss Landless chooses to say that the original literary person from whom I believe we procured most of this information was not quite accurate, one can only say she has probably gone outside the rules. MR. CHESTERTON: My Lord, I would direct your attention to the third paragraph of the “Conditions.” JUDGE (_after perusing the paragraph referred to_): Yes, I see: that is, on the face of it, it is quite clear that a statement does appear to be made to that effect. The rest falls into the deplorable abyss of literature. MR. CHESTERTON (_to witness_): Now, after you had been “boggling about” in search of a place which you knew perfectly well already, you met a small boy, I think? WITNESS: I did. MR. CHESTERTON: I need not trouble you with the conversation, but that boy agreed to conduct you to Tope’s? WITNESS: Yes. MR. CHESTERTON: Now he brought you to a place from which the arched passage was visible? WITNESS: Yes. MR. CHESTERTON: And you said, “That’s Tope’s”? WITNESS: Yes. MR. CHESTERTON: And he answered, “Yer lie; it ain’t. That’s Jarsper’s.” Is that so? WITNESS: Yes. MR. CHESTERTON: And you said, “Indeed?” And you gave a “second look, of some interest.” What was the meaning of that? WITNESS: Well, of course, I knew it was Jasper’s, but when Jasper’s house or anything connected with him, was brought to my mind, I always thought it was interesting, and gave a look for that reason. MR. CHESTERTON: But you knew you were going to Jasper’s house? WITNESS: Yes. MR. CHESTERTON: But why did you give it a second look? WITNESS: Because I was so interested. MR. CHESTERTON: You knew it was Jasper’s, because the boy said it was Jasper’s, and you gave it “a look of some interest”! WITNESS: We know that dinner is ready, but we look with interest at it before we sit down to it. MR. CHESTERTON: You knew it was Jasper’s, and gave “a second look of some interest” when told it was Jasper’s. Now you went to Tope’s, and you met, as you told us, Jasper and Mr. Sapsea, and other people. Now you kept your record, you told us, in chalk, and you told us that one of your reasons for doing that was that you must evade discovery of your handwriting? WITNESS: That is so.