It may at least help to put us on the right track.

Call the witnesses." "Then I will call Mr.John Buckstone, who is now present, and I beg that Mrs.Patsy Cooper may be sent for.

Take the stand, Mr.Buckstone." Buckstone took the oath, and then testified that on the previous evening the Count Angelo Capello had protested against going to the hall, and had called all present to witness that he was going by compulsion and would not go if he could help himself.

Also, that the Count Luigi had replied sharply that he would go, just the same, and that he, Count Luigi, would see to that himself.

Also, that upon Count Angelo's complaining about being kept on his legs so long, Count Luigi retorted with apparent surprise, "Your legs!--I like your impudence!" "Now we are getting at the kernel of the thing," observed the judge, with grave and earnest satisfaction.