Part 28 (1/2)
”The same kind of picture that you had been selling at ten pounds?”
”Yes.”
”So that on the very day that the defendant wanted you to swear that you were Priam Farll, the price of your pictures rose from ten pounds to five hundred?”
”Yes.”
”Doesn't that strike you as odd?”
”Yes.”
”You still say--mind, Leek, you are on your oath!--you still say that you refused thirty-six thousand pounds in order to accept five hundred.”
”I sold a picture for five hundred.”
(On the placards in the Strand: ”Severe cross-examination of Leek.”)
”Now about the encounter with Mr. Duncan Farll. Of course, if you are really Priam Farll, you remember all about that?”
”Yes.”
”What age were you?”
”I don't know. About nine.”
”Oh! You were about nine. A suitable age for cake.” (Great laughter.) ”Now, Mr. Duncan Farll says you loosened one of his teeth.”
”I did.”
”And that he tore your clothes.”
”I dare say.”
”He says he remembers the fact because you had two moles.”
”Yes.”
”Have you two moles?”
”Yes.” (Immense sensation.)
Pennington paused.
”Where are they?”
”On my neck just below my collar.”