MR. CHESTERTON: I am endeavouring to show that this story is not true, as I shall represent to the Jury, and my motive for asking the question is, that I suggest it was not Miss Landless who made the mark. The witness who did make the mark will be summoned later, and asked why he made it. WITNESS: You ask why I made the long mark? MR. CHESTERTON: Yes. WITNESS: Because I thought, when she shook her fist at Jasper, and putting with that the fact that she had followed him, I concluded that she knew something against him, and I thought I had scored, and scored heavily. MR. CHESTERTON: Is that all? WITNESS: I had learned more than that. I had learned that Edwin Drood had given her money for opium on Christmas Eve. MR. CHESTERTON: What did that prove? JUDGE: We must not go into what that could prove. The witness has given a perfectly clear and definite account of her proceedings, and I strongly suggest that unless there is some particular point to be made, she should now be released from the witness-box, because the other point whether she knows anything about the scoring at inns, or whether such practices are common in Ceylon, must be left to later discussion. MR. CHESTERTON: That is not the point I am trying to make; but that there was no reason why she should make the score, and I asked why she made it. I believe she did not. JUDGE: But if she replies that she makes long or short chalk marks, in accordance with the ebullitions of her emotional nature—— MR. CHESTERTON: She is entitled to do so. JUDGE: That would be an answer, and the only answer to which you will be entitled at the moment. MR. CHESTERTON: If she likes, she may. JUDGE: She has told you that she made a long stroke because she thought she had made a great score in her own mind against Jasper, and that she made a shorter mark before because she had not made a big score. That is all that could be expected to be got out of her, without a self-contradiction which would amount to perjury. MR. CHESTERTON: I have very little more to ask, and shall get through very quickly. (_To witness._) Now, you tell us that your motives were very compelling. You didn’t care much about Edwin Drood, did you? WITNESS: No, there was nothing particular about him. I thought he was a nice young fellow. MR. CHESTERTON: You did? You did not call him “base and trivial”? WITNESS: When he acted as he did to my brother, I felt angry, and naturally said things I should not have said. MR. CHESTERTON: Your feelings were not very strong? WITNESS: No. MR. CHESTERTON: Your motive, you say, was care for your brother and for Miss Rosa Bud? WITNESS: That is so. MR. CHESTERTON: Do you consider those motives adequate to induce you to take the course you say you took? WITNESS: I do. MR. CHESTERTON: Enough to make you take all risks? WITNESS: Yes. MR. CHESTERTON: To go all lengths? WITNESS: To the risk of my life. MR. CHESTERTON: Your life? WITNESS: He was all I had.