Caldigate with his father was in court a little before ten, and at that hour punctually the trial was recommenced.  The first business was the examination of Adamson, who was quite clear as to the marriage.  He had been concerned with Crinkett in money operations for many years, and had been asked by him to be present simply as a witness.  He had never been particularly intimate with Caldigate, and had had little or nothing to do with him afterwards.  He was cross-examined by the second gentleman, but was not subjected to much annoyance.  He had put what little money he possessed into the Polyeuka mine, and had come over to England because he had thought that, by so doing, he might perhaps get a portion of his money back.  Had there been a conspiracy, and was he one of the conspirators?  Well, he rather thought that there had been a conspiracy, and that he was one of the conspirators.  But then he had only conspired to get what he thought to be his own.  He had lost everything in the Polyeuka mine; and as the gentleman no doubt had married the lady, he thought he might as well come forward,—­and that perhaps in that way he would get his money.  He did not mind saying that he had received a couple of thousand pounds, which was half what he had put into Polyeuka.  He hoped that, after paying all his expenses, he would be able to start again at the diggings with something above a thousand.  This was all straight sailing.  The purpose which he had in view was so manifest that it had hardly been worth while to ask him the questions.

Anna Young was the next, and she encountered the sweet courtesies of Sir John Joram.  These sweet courtesies were prolonged for above an hour, and were not apparently very sweet to Miss Young.  Of the witnesses hitherto examined she was the worst.  She had been flippantly confident in her memories of the marriage ceremony when questioned on behalf of the prosecution, but had forgotten everything in reference to her friend’s subsequent married life.  She had forgotten even her own life, and did not quite know where she had lived.  And at last she positively refused to answer questions though they were asked with the most engaging civility.  She said that, ’Of course a lady had affairs which she could not tell to everybody.’  ’No, she didn’t mean lovers;—­she didn’t care for the men at all.’  ’Yes; she did mean money.  She had done a little mining, and hoped to do a little more.’  ’She was to have a thousand pounds and her expenses, but she hadn’t got the money yet,’—­and so on.  Probably of all the witnesses yet examined Miss Young had amused the court the most.