Part 60 (2/2)
”Why, mine, I should think.”
”Could you identify them?”
”Certainly I could.”
”Are these the jewels in question?”
The old man put on his spectacles, and examined them closely.
”They are; I know every one of them.”
”They were stolen from you?”
”They were.”
”On whose person, after having been stolen, were they found?”
”On the person of the prisoner at the bar.”
”You swear that?”
”I do; because I saw him take them out of his pocket in my own house after he had been made prisoner and detected.”
”Then they are your property?”
”Certainly--I consider them my property; who else's property could they be.”
”Pray, is not your daughter a minor?”
”She is.”
”And a ward in the Court of Chancery?”
”Yes.”
”That will do, sir.”
The squire was then about to leave the table, when Mr. Fox addressed him:
”Not yet, Mr. Folliard, if you please; you swear the jewels are yours?”
”I do; to whom else should they belong?”
”Are you of opinion that the prisoner at the bar robbed you of them?”
”I found them in his possession.”
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