Um! Well--now how much is he mixed up ?" And he turned to the witness-box and from that moment never took his eyes off the man who now stood in it.

For Spargo had ideas about the witness which he was anxious to develop.
The folk who expected something immediately sensational in Mr.
Aylmore's evidence were disappointed.

Aylmore, having been sworn, and asked a question or two by the Coroner, requested permission to tell, in his own way, what he knew of the dead man and of this sad affair; and having received that permission, he went on in a calm, unimpassioned manner to repeat precisely what he had told Spargo.

It sounded a very plain, ordinary story.

He had known Marbury many years ago.