He has made my task a comparatively easy one." Then, glancing at the list of names and addresses which had been compiled for him by Sweetwater, he added: "I will read off your names as recorded here.

If each person, on hearing his own, will move quickly to his place and remain there till my young man can make a note of the same, we shall get through this matter in short order.

And let me add"-- as he perceived here and there a shoulder shrugged, or an eye turned askance--"that once the name is called, no excuse of non-recollection will be accepted.

You must know, every one of you, just where you were standing when the cry of death rang out, and any attempt to mislead me or others in this matter will only subject the person making it to a suspicion he must wish to avoid.

Remember that there are enough persons here for no one to be sure that his whereabouts at so exciting a moment escaped notice.