At this point, not a person in the court, from the lowest spectator to the high justiciary on the bench, but believed the case to be entirely made out; and some of the crown lawyers whispered among themselves, wondering why the prisoner had not been arraigned in the forest or criminal courts, for the higher offenses, which seemed to be proved against him. Thomas de Curthose, cross-examining the witness, asked-- "The man at the bar is Eadwulf the Red?" "He is." "On your oath, and of your own knowledge." "On my oath, and of my own knowledge." "Did you ever hear that 'Eadwulf the Red' should call himself, or be called by others, 'Kenric.'" "Never, until now." "And how have you heard it now?" "I have seen it stamped on his quarrels." "Had 'Eadwulf the Red' a brother?" "A brother?" "Had 'Eadwulf the Red' a brother?" "I have heard say he had." "Of your own knowledge, on your oath?" "He had a brother." "What was his name?" "I--I have forgotten." "On your oath! on your oath, sirrah!" thundered Thomas de Curthose. "Was not his name 'Kenric?'" "I think it was 'Kenric.'" "Look at the person at the bar." The man did so; but reluctantly, and with an evident tremor. "Is not that man 'Kenric,' the brother of 'Eadwulf the Red?'" "That man is 'Eadwulf the Red'--I have sworn it." "And art forsworn, in swearing it. But again, thou hast sworn, 'that on the third morning, after taking scent of the fugitive from the place of the deer and manslaying, and after hunting him constantly with bloodhounds, you lost all track of him on the bare moor in Borland Forest?'" "Why, ay! I have sworn that; it is quite true," said the man, seemingly reassured, at the change of the line of examination. "I doubt it not. Now, when did the hounds take the scent again?" "Why, not at all. We saw he was making for the sands, and so squandered ourselves in parties, and on the second morning, at daybreak, saw him crossing them." "How far off was he, when you saw him?" "About three miles." "Could you see, to know him, at that distance?" "Why, no; but we guessed it was he, when we saw him run from us; and, when we wound up the clew to the end, and caught him, we found that we were right." "You may stand down. Who is next?" Four other witnesses followed, who all swore positively to the person of the prisoner, as "Eadwulf the Red," and testified to various points in the circumstances of the pursuit and capture, all tending to the identification of Kenric with the fugitive; and though the counsel for the defense had succeeded, more or less, in shaking the credit of some of the witnesses with the jury, and of raising a doubt concerning the existence of a brother, with whom the fugitive might have been confounded, no head had yet been made against the direct testimony of six witnesses, swearing positively to his person, and against the damaging circumstantial evidence of the crossbow and quarrels.