[“PRINCESS PUFFER” CROSS-EXAMINED.] MR. WALTERS: Just one question. When you met Edwin Drood, I think you told him “Ned” was a threatened name? WITNESS: Yes, deary. MR. WALTERS: What did you mean by “threatened”? WITNESS: It was a bad name. MR. WALTERS: Do you think a man threatened is in danger? WITNESS: It sounds like it, deary, don’t it? MR. WALTERS: It does. I want you to agree with me. I think you were in the habit of listening to Mr. Jasper when he had a little opium? WITNESS: That is so. MR. WALTERS: Ever hear him say the word “Ned”? WITNESS: I can’t recollect. I should think he did. MR. WALTERS: What made you hit upon the name “Ned” as a threatened name? WITNESS: He talked about him in a very unkind way. MR. WALTERS: You say the man threatened was in danger. Did you think “Ned” in danger? WITNESS: I heard what he said. Shall I tell you? MR. WALTERS: Not what he said. It doesn’t matter. But I want to know that “Ned” was a threatened name. WITNESS: That’s right, deary. MR. WALTERS: Were you giving warning to anybody of the name of “Ned”? WITNESS: I told him it was a threatened name. MR. WALTERS: Did you know he was called “Ned”? WITNESS: I asked him. MR. WALTERS: Did you know who called him “Ned”? WITNESS: I don’t know. MR. WALTERS: If I told you that Jasper, and Jasper alone, called him “Ned”? WITNESS: I should believe you, deary. I should believe you. MR. WALTERS: And you would therefore also believe that Jasper was threatening him? WITNESS: Yes, deary. MR. WALTERS: And that he meant it? WITNESS: Yes, deary. MR. WALTERS: So you think there was murder in the mind of John Jasper? WITNESS: I think he wanted to do him harm. MR. WALTERS: Do you love John Jasper? WITNESS: No, I don’t. MR. WALTERS: I suppose you don’t love any of your customers? WITNESS: I don’t care much about ’em. MR. WALTERS: But you don’t turn them away? When they come to you you take their money? WITNESS: Yes. MR. WALTERS: Do you always follow your customers down to their private residences? WITNESS: No. MR. WALTERS: Why this one? WITNESS: He had money. MR. WALTERS: What! A poor man in a choir had got money? WITNESS: He had money. MR. WALTERS: It was worth all your while to go all the way to Cloisterham after one customer? WITNESS: Yes. MR. WALTERS: He had such a lot of money? WITNESS: Yes; to me he had. I’m only a poor woman. MR. WALTERS: He was richer than all your other customers? WITNESS: Yes. MR. WALTERS: You think so? WITNESS: Yes. MR. WALTERS: You don’t know where all this money came from? WITNESS: No. MR. WALTERS: You hated him? WITNESS: Yes. MR. WALTERS: And you wanted his money? WITNESS: Yes. He was always a-listening. MR. WALTERS: I thought it was you listening?