I took a good look at him.

I haven't forgotten his face." "You haven't forgotten his face.

Mr.Lyell--has anything recalled that face to you within this last day or two ?" "Yes, sir, indeed!" "What ?" "The picture of the man they say was murdered--John Marbury." "You're sure of that ?" "I'm as certain, sir, as that my name's what it is." "It is your belief that Mr.Aylmore, when you met him, was accompanied by the man who, according to the photographs, was John Marbury ?" "It is, sir!" "Very well.

Now, having seen Mr.Aylmore and his companion, what did you do ?" "Oh, I just turned and walked after them." "You walked after them?
They were going eastward, then ?" "They were walking by the way I'd come." "You followed them eastward ?" "I did--I was going back to the hotel, you see." "What were they doing ?" "Talking uncommonly earnestly, sir." "How far did you follow them ?" "I followed them until they came to the Embankment lodge of Middle Temple Lane, sir." "And then ?" "Why, sir, they turned in there, and I went straight on to De Keyser's, and to my bed." There was a deeper silence in court at that moment than at any other period of the long day, and it grew still deeper when the quiet, keen voice put the next question.
"You swear on your oath that you saw Mr.Aylmore take his companion into the Temple by the Embankment entrance of Middle Temple Lane on the occasion in question ?" "I do! I could swear no other, sir." "Can you tell us, as near as possible, what time that would be ?" "Yes.

It was, to a minute or so, about five minutes past twelve." The Treasury Counsel nodded to the Coroner, and the Coroner, after a whispered conference with the foreman of the jury, looked at the witness.
"You have only just given this information to the police, I understand ?" he said.
"Yes, sir.