rdingbridge. This way
he alleged, apparently falsely, was a shorter way than he had taken on
Saturday. Near Barton, however, they lost their way, and Dunne was sent
down to the village to a man to tell him that one Hicks desired to speak
to him. Who the man was, he hesitated to say.

DUNNE--His name, my Lord, I cannot rightly tell for the present.

LORD CHIEF-JUSTICE--Prithee recollect thyself: indeed thou canst
tell us if thou wilt.

DUNNE--My Lord, I can go to the house again if I were at
liberty.

LORD CHIEF-JUSTICE--I believe it, and so could I; but really
neither you nor I can be spared at present; therefore prithee do
us the kindness now to tell us his name.

DUNNE--My Lord, I think his name was Fane.

LORD CHIEF-JUSTICE--Thou sayest right, his name was Fane truly,
thou seest I know something of the matter.[57]

Dunne brought Fane to Hicks, who asked him the way to Mrs. Lisle's.

LORD CHIEF-JUSTICE--Now tell us what kind of man that was, that
desired this of Mr. Fane?

DUNNE--My Lord, it was the full fat black man.

LORD CHIEF-JUSTICE--Now we have got him out, now we know which
was Hicks, now go on.

On arriving at Mrs. Lisle's, Hicks and Nelthorp entered first in the
dark; Dunne did not see them again till they were taken. Dunne was
received by a young girl he did not know. He had 'a bit of cake and
cheese from my own house, and that I eat': he did not see Mrs. Lisle.

So far, Jeffreys had been conducting an examination-in-chief, or what
served the same purpose. Now the cross-examination begins--Dunne was
forced to take the word of the first man who came to him that he would
be paid. He was a baker, and would not bake on Sundays.

LORD CHIEF-JUSTICE--Alack-a-day! thou art precise in that, but
thou canst travel on Sundays to lead rogues into lurking holes
... but I assure thee thy bread is very light weight, it will
scarce pass the balance here.

He left his horse in the stable, the other two left theirs outside the
gate. He knew there were fugitives about the country; he did not ask the
little man with the black beard who Hicks was. Hicks told him he was in
debt. Did not the man who first came tell him Hicks was in debt and
wanted to be concealed? He did. How came Dunne to be so impudent then as
to tell such a lie?

DUNNE--I beg your pardon, my Lord.

LORD CHIEF-JUSTICE--You beg my pardon! That is not becau