hat same evening."

"Very well, then. Sir Terence called you at ten minutes past twelve.
Pray continue."

"He gave me a letter addressed to the Commissary-general. 'Take that,'
says he, 'to the sergeant of the guard at once, and tell him to be
sure that it is forwarded to the Commissary-General first thing in the
morning.' I went out at once, and on the lawn in the quadrangle I saw a
man lying on his back on the grass and another man kneeling beside him.
I ran across to them. It was a bright, moonlight night--bright as day
it was, and you could see quite clear. The gentleman that was kneeling
looks up, at me, and I sees it was Captain Tremayne, sir. 'What's this,
Captain dear?' says I. 'It's Count Samoval, and he's kilt,' says he,
'for God's sake, go and fetch somebody.' So I ran back to tell Sir
Terence, and Sir Terence he came out with me, and mighty startled he
was at what he found there. 'What's happened?'says he, and the captain
answers him just as he had answered me: 'It's Count Samoval, and he's
kilt. 'But how did it happen?' says Sir Terence. 'Sure and that's just
what I want to know,' says the captain; 'I found him here.' And then Sir
Terence turns to me, and 'Mullins,' says he, 'just fetch the guard,' and
of course, I went at once."

"Was there any one else present?" asked the prosecutor.

"Not in the quadrangle, sir. But Lady O'Moy was on the balcony of her
room all the time."

"Well, then, you fetched the guard. What happened when you returned?"

"Colonel Grant arrived, sir, and I understood him to say that he had
been following Count Samoval..."

"Which way did Colonel Grant come?" put in the president.

"By the gate from the terrace."

"Was it open?"

"No, sir. Sir Terence himself went to open the wicket when Colonel Grant
knocked."

Sir Harry nodded and Major Swan resumed the examination.

"What happened next?"

"Sir Terence ordered the captain under arrest."

"Did Captain Tremayne submit at once?"

"Well, not quite at once, sir. He naturally made some bother. 'Good
God!' he says, 'ye'll never be after thinking I kilt him? I tell you I
just found him here like this.' 'What were ye doing here, then?' says
Sir Terence. 'I was coming to see you,' says the captain. 'What about?'
says Sir Terence, and with that the captain got angry, said he refused
to be cross-questioned and went off to report himself under arrest as he
was bid."

That closed the butler's evidence, and the judge-advocate