5/15 "Now, then!" he burst out in his fiercely sudden way. "I'm going to get to the root of the matter." He leaned forward with his elbows on the table, and began his examination of Moody. Heartily as Mr.Troy despised and disliked the old rogue, he listened with astonishment and admiration--literally extorted from him by the marvelous ability with which the questions were adapted to the end in view. In a quarter of an hour Old Sharon had extracted from the witness everything, literally everything down to the smallest detail, that Moody could tell him. Having now, in his own phrase, "got to the root of the matter," he relighted his pipe with a grunt of satisfaction, and laid himself back in his old armchair. |