CHAPTER XVIII

THE SPEECH FOR THE DEFENCE "_Nobody; I myself; farewell_." OTHELLO After the reading of Cathcart's letter even the appearance of the prisoner in the witness-box came as an anti-climax. In the face of the Attorney-General's cross-examination he maintained stoutly that he had wandered on the moor for several hours without meeting anybody, though he was forced to admit that he had gone downstairs at 11.30, and not at 2.30, as he had stated at the inque…