The inscriptions on the duplicates supported him in this, and he professed to have not the least doubt as to the prisoner's identity.

Pressed in cross-examination, he certainly threw some suspicion on the trustworthiness of his assertions.

"You positively swear that these two articles were pledged by the prisoner, and at the same time!" asked the cross-examiner.

"Well," was the impatient reply, "there's the same date and name, and both in my writing." But even thus much of doubt he speedily retracted, and his evidence could not be practically undermined.
Harriet's examination was long and searching, but she bore it without the slightest damage to her credit.

Plain, straightforward, and stubborn were all her replies and assertions; she did not contradict herself once.