the turret strike eleven, and to see the mon and the woman meet
thegither in the shadows."

"Are you sure that you could not identify that man or woman?"

"Anan?"

"Would you know either of them again?" inquired Mr. Guthrie, changing the
manner of his question.

"Na! I tauld ye sae before. They were half hidden i' the bushes."

"You say it was a quarter to ten when you left Lord Arondelle in his room
at the inn?"

"Ay, war it."

"And that it was eleven o'clock when you witnessed the meeting between
the man and the woman at Castle Lone!"

"Ay, war it. And I had to run a' the way to do it in that time. It waur
guid rinning."

"You left his lordship's valet with him, do you say?"

"Ay, I did. And the head waiter o' the Arondelle Arms, too, wha was just
gaeing in wi' his lairdship's supper."

"That will do. You may now stand down," said Mr. Guthrie.

The shock-headed apprentice, who had done such good service to his Grace
the Duke of Hereward, and such damage to the false witness against him,
now left the stand and made his way through the crowd to his distant
seat.

Mr. Guthrie once more got upon his feet to address the Bench, and said:

"May it please the Court, I move that the testimony of the Crown's
witness, Rose Cameron, alias Rose Scott, be set aside as totally
unreliable; and, further, that she be indicted for perjury."

Upon this motion of Mr. Guthrie there followed some discussion among the
lawyers.

Finally it was decided to put the duke's valet, the hotel waiter, and
other witnesses, on the stand, who would be able to corroborate or rebut
the evidence given by the lad Ferguson, and thereby break down or
establish the testimony offered by Rose Cameron.

James Kerr was, therefore, called to the witness-stand, sworn and
examined.

He said that he had been in the service of the duke's family ever since
he was nine years of age, first as page to the late duchess, but for the
last three years as valet to the present duke; that he was with his
master at the "Arondelle Arms" on the night of the murder; that the duke,
who was then the Marquis of Arondelle, left the inn at half-past eight
o'clock, to walk over the bridge to Castle Lone; that he returned at
half-past nine, accompanied to his room by the boy Ferguson, who brought
a handsome Russia leather travelling-case; that the marquis sat down to
his writing-table, wrote a note and gave it to the boy, who immediately
left the house.

"At what