professionally during a fit of the gout in the last fortnight of
June, when he had observed that the prisoner was very attentive to
his uncle. Mr. Axworthy was always unwilling to be waited on, but
was unusually tolerant of this nephew's exertions on his behalf, and
had seemed of late to place much reliance on him.

Doctor Richard May was the next witness called. The sound of that
name caused the first visible change in the prisoner's demeanour, if
that could be called change, which was only a slight relaxation of
the firm closing of the lips, and one sparkle of the dark eyes, ere
they were again bent down as before, though not without a quiver of
the lids.

Dr. May had brought tone, look, and manner to the grave impartiality
which even the most sensitive man is drilled into assuming in public;
but he durst not cast one glance in the direction of the prisoner.

In answer to the counsel for the prosecution, he stated that he was
at the Vintry Mill at seven o'clock on the morning of the 6th of
July, not professionally, but as taking interest in the Ward family.
He had seen the body of the deceased, and considered death to have
been occasioned by fracture of the skull, from a blow with a blunt
heavy instrument. The superintendent had shown him a rifle, which he
considered, from the marks on it, as well as from the appearance of
the body, to have produced the injury. The rifle was the one shown
to him; it was the property of Leonard Ward. He recognized it by the
crest and cipher H. E. It had belonged to his son-in-law, Hector
Ernescliffe, by whom it had been given to Leonard Ward.

Poor Doctor! That was a cruel piece of evidence; and his son and