WITNESS: No idea. MR. WALTERS: Would it surprise you to know that after an orgy he would be clear-headed in the morning? WITNESS: Nothing would surprise me, I think, from the little I have read of their literature. MR. WALTERS: You know nothing about it? WITNESS: As a matter of experience, that is the exhilarating fact. MR. WALTERS: You never saw Jasper taking opium? WITNESS: No. MR. WALTERS: And you watched him in Cloisterham? WITNESS: In the street. He never took any there. MR. WALTERS: You believe that possibly he made a desperate attack on Edwin Drood? WITNESS: Yes, I think so. MR. WALTERS: He would possibly make an attack on someone else? WITNESS: Yes. MR. WALTERS: Don’t you think, therefore, you were in some danger? WITNESS: I don’t think I was. MR. WALTERS: You don’t think you were in danger from a man who might make an attack? Are you a man of very great nerve? WITNESS: It’s not for me to say. JUDGE: I don’t think you have any right to ask him that. That is a matter of personal knowledge. It might be settled in a fight outside. MR. WALTERS: One or two more questions. Have you a great affection for Edwin Drood? WITNESS: I have not. MR. WALTERS: Nor for Neville Landless? WITNESS: No. MR. WALTERS: No interest in Miss Helena Landless? WITNESS: No. MR. WALTERS: No interest whatever in any of the parties? WITNESS: Business interest only. MR. WALTERS: Then, why did you risk your valuable life? WITNESS: In the first place, I don’t think I exposed my life, valuable or otherwise, to any great risk. Why I went down there was because Mr. Grewgious asked me to do so, and because he had been a very generous and considerate employer to me, and I also thought that if I had good results he would reward me suitably. MR. WALTERS: Can you give me any explanation, if Drood has disappeared, why he has not communicated with his friends? JUDGE: That is surely a point for final discussion in abstract debate? MR. WALTERS: I only ask if he can offer any explanation. (_To witness._) Should you expect a man who has disappeared, and finding all his friends in danger, to communicate with his friends? WITNESS: On that hypothetical case, I think I should. But that has no reference to the Drood question. JUDGE: I think we should confine ourselves as sharply as we can to bringing out the actual facts, and not to abstract argument. MR. WALTERS (_to witness_): Can you give us any reason why he should not communicate? WITNESS: I cannot: but he has communicated with his friends. MR. WALTERS: Are you going to produce any evidence? WITNESS: That is in the hands of Counsel. MR. WALTERS: Don’t you think the white wig would give you away? WITNESS: I can’t tell you. I was in the hands of a costumier. MR. WALTERS: You can go back to Norfolk, Mr. Bazzard. WITNESS: Thank you, I am going back to the City. MR. CHESTERTON: I have no intention of cross-examining this witness. That concludes my case. [SPEECH FOR THE DEFENCE.]