"
"Well, we won't go further into that at present. But it is a fact that
you would like to do him a good turn?"
"Yes."
"You came here with the intention of doing him a good turn?"
Kemp considered for a moment before answering:
"Yes."
"You came here with the intention of giving evidence that would
get him off?"
"Yes."
"You came here with the intention of committing perjury in order to get
him off?" Mr. Walters waited, but there was no reply to the question, and
he added, "You see what your perjured evidence has done for him?"
"What has it done?" asked Kemp sullenly.
"It has established the prisoner's guilt beyond all reasonable doubt in
the minds of men of common sense. You did not see Sir Horace Fewbanks
that night after the prisoner left him. You could not have seen him even
if he had leaned out of the window. But your whole story is a lie,
because Sir Horace was dead when the prisoner left him."
"He was not," shouted Kemp. "I saw him alive. I saw him as plain as I
see you now."
The man in court who was most fascinated by the witness was Crewe. He
had watched every movement of Kemp's face, every change in the tone of
his voice.
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