WITNESS: Yes. MR. WALTERS: It has been suggested that your story is entirely romance. If you had been acting a part, would you not naturally have been disgraced for ever in the eyes of all who know you? WITNESS: I should indeed. MR. WALTERS: Have you not a particular reason at present for wishing to stand high in the esteem of certain people? WITNESS: I have. MR. WALTERS: Don’t you think you would forfeit that esteem if you stood there on your oath, and told a tissue of falsehoods? WITNESS: I should. MR. WALTERS: Is there not every reason why you should tell the truth? WITNESS: There is. MR. WALTERS: Have you anything to gain by telling lies? WITNESS: I have all to lose. MR. WALTERS: Have you not been working entirely for others throughout? WITNESS: Yes. MR. WALTERS: You would not have taken this part if you could have helped it? WITNESS: No. MR. WALTERS: And when you were making these investigations you did not want to go to everybody and ask his definite business—“What sort of lawyer are you?”? WITNESS: No; I never thought about it. He was a lawyer, and that’s all I knew. MR. WALTERS: Have you ever written a tragedy that nobody will bring out? WITNESS: No, indeed, I have not. MR. WALTERS: And so you have no particular reason for standing in the limelight and making yourself a heroine. Thank you. JUDGE: The Court will now adjourn for about ten or fifteen minutes. * * * * * The Court accordingly adjourned. On the resumption of the proceedings, Mr. Walters announced that the evidence of Miss Helena Landless had completed his case. [THE CASE FOR THE DEFENCE.] Mr. Crotch, in opening the case for the defence, said— MY LORD, AND GENTLEMEN OF THE JURY— I am not going to follow the example of my learned friend, but I am merely going to outline the defence as briefly as possible. I am going to say at once that we are not out to attempt to dispute in any way that the prisoner desired the death of Edwin Drood or that he intended to murder him, nor that he planned to murder him, nor that he actually attempted to murder him, nor indeed, my Lord, that at one time, and for some time, he did believe that he had actually murdered him. What we do say, however, is that no murder took place. For any murder there must be, not only a murderer, but a murdered man. Now, granted for a moment that in the prisoner at the bar you have a potential murderer, where is the murdered man? MR. WALTERS: This is strictly against all agreements. MR. CROTCH: I will put my statement in another way, my Lord. MR. WALTERS: I draw your attention to this fact: it is agreed that the legal point that no conviction can take place since no body has been found, shall be raised only after the retirement of the jury. This ought not to have been introduced at all. JUDGE: But we may assume, what is apparently the fact, that no murdered body has been found? MR. WALTERS: But he went further, and said, “Where is the body?”